From owner-cvs-all Tue Jun 27 17:37:38 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C621437C44D; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:37:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03048; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <200006280041.RAA03048@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates softdep.h ffs_softdep.c In-Reply-To: <20000628012956.B19558@pavilion.net> from Josef Karthauser at "Jun 28, 2000 01:29:56 am" To: Josef Karthauser Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Matthew Jacob , Akinori -Aki- MUSHA , andrews@technologist.com, mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 09:29:24AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure.... I have a feeling that there are softupdate problems >>> running under SMP. A number of times this year I've lost whole filesystems >>> on an SMP machines. :( >> >> Really? Have you told Kirk? >> > > (This was on a 16gb ccd containing customer web data). The second Could be a softupdates and ccd interaction? > More recently a friend of mine was having crashes doing a make > world under 4.0 with SMP and softupdate. Switching softupdates > off caused the crashes to go away. Was the FS nearly full or exceeding 100% full? SU is/was known to have problems if you were running under these conditions. > > Is anyone else here using softupdates in an SMP environment? > Of course ;-) I've been using SU since Kirk allowed it to be included in FreeBSD. I haven't had a SU crash for a long, long, time, and I've never completely lose a FS. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message