From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 11:44:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.87.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B93437B5E8 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:44:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fosburgh@flash.net) Received: from jefnt (jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.64.202]) by mail.mdanderson.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA11089; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:39:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <022a01bfcfe6$fa350670$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> From: "Jonathan Fosburgh" To: "Agent Drek" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: softupdates Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:42:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI, I have been bit by this bug too, with softupdates enabled. Fortunately, most of /var survived, unfortunately, /var/db/pkg was hosed and fsck still can't clean it. For the most part, however, softupdates have only been helpful. I only loose data now if I have a panic (which I don't think has happened since I upgraded to 4.0 some time ago), X locks up, or there was a power outage right at a time when a file was being updated. Without softupdates, I often would loose a number of files in the above cases, now maybe one, and that is rare. Jonathan Fosburgh Open Systems Communications and Computer Services UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX 77030 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Agent Drek" To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:40 PM Subject: Re: softupdates > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: > > > i setup a FreeBSD file server at work, and during a dd to a floppy it got > > hard read errors and paniced the machine (woo-hoo!! i hate floppy drives) > > so at that point i thought, maybe i should enable softupdates. > > was the floppy write protected? I got bit by that bug previously. I don't > think that softupdates will help you there ... in other areas? possibly. > > > > > but what should i know before i do this? this machine has to be stable, so > > i won't do it if it introduces instability (even if it makes recovering > > easier) and also what about performance? it's hooked up to a hardware RAID > > box if that makes any difference. > > > > thanks, > > > > -brian > > > > -- > Agent Drek > > Big Animation Inc > 'digital plumber' > http://www.bigstudios.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message