Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 17:08:45 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, phk@ref.tfs.com Subject: Re: Disappearing space in root fs. Message-ID: <9502280008.AA04156@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199502272041.HAA18058@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 28, 95 07:41:57 am
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> fsck tells me that vipw unlinks the previous copies pwd.db and spwd.db. > fstat tells me that nothing normally has these files open before or after! > ktrace tells me that vipw and its descendants aren't doing anything > special to the database files. > > I'm not running YP or non-default encryption. The problem is easy to > duplicate - just run vipw and change something. Apparently the cache changes mean that they aren't LRU'ed out. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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