Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:23:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902101120010.9237-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <199902101915.MAA21530@usr07.primenet.com>
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I have reported, several times, problems having to do with large FFS filesystems, possibly related to softupdates, posibly not, to Kirk, Luoqi, etc... Nobody showed any interest in looking at the problems - in fact, the email wasn't even answered. As a consequence, FreeBSD lost out for being considered a candidate at NASA/Ames for large mass storage. Shrug...It may or may not be true that softupdates, per se, are stable. In my opinion, FFS as offered by FreeBSD (and NetBSD) have not shown themselves to be adequate to large (>500GB) filesystems. Sad to say, ext2 under linux works better. On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > what is the current status of softupdates? > > > is it safe to turn on softupdates (no ccd)? > > > > It's been working just fine here for at least the last 6 months.. I haven't > > heard any softupdates-related panics/crashes on the mailing lists in a while. > > Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. > > It could very well be that those people running soft updates are > so trashed that they can't post their horror stories to the list... > > That was a joke, in case it wasn't obvious. > > I think there are still two or three "rough edges", if not outright > bugs, like unexpected behaviour when marking /, etc.. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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