From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 07:59:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19293 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc1.mfn.org (ftp.mfn.org [204.238.179.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA19288 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from greeves.mfn.org (unverified [204.238.179.35]) by mail.mfn.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:01:43 -0500 Received: by greeves.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BD990D.5B9296C0@greeves.mfn.org>; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:58:48 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD990D.5B9296C0@greeves.mfn.org> From: greeves To: greeves , "'dg@root.com'" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" , "hua@nease.net" , "'Thomas David Rivers'" Subject: RE: Is there any "race condition" in FFS? Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:58:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ahhh... Now I feel better! From the context, I thought this was a common phenomenon... May I ask what hardware config and file system layout has been associated with this (I'd *hate* to be one of the 1 in 200,000!)... J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org > Dave has had problems since nearly the very beginning of FreeBSD. If we >were able to reproduce the problem, then we'd likely have fixed it. I believe >there is a real problem, but it seems to show up in only about 1 in 200,000 >systems. It is extremely unlikely that you'll ever see it. I think the problem >is sensitive to filesystem layout and possibly some kind of race condition, >but that's just a guess based on data that Dave has provided. > We successfully handle several hundred thousand emails/day through the >project's mail server, so if that's not good enough, then I don't really know >what is. >-DG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message