From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 11 07:38:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03329 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03321 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:38:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA13231; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:38:21 -0800 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:38:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: David Greenman cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates In-Reply-To: <199902111530.HAA29608@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess it really wasn't clear to me. The second email I included also showed that the problem still occurred even after the realloc stuff was sysctl'd off. Like I said- if folks are really going to work on it I'll start testing it again. > > I thought it was made fairly clear that there were problems with missing > bmap operations in some places, which are brought to the surface with the > reallocblks code. I also thought it was made fairly clear that there is a > sysctl variable available to disable reallocblks (vfs.ffs.doreallocblks). > I know I've sent many messages on this subject to the FreeBSD lists; I > apologize if you didn't see them. > In any case, the reallocblks problems are believed to be fixed now. If > this isn't true, then we need to make sure that it is set to disabled for > the upcoming 3.1 release. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > 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