Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:27:17 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates on / Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901290926270.304-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901291601380.5100-100000@bragg>
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Kirk has responded and said that I was wrong.. The code to do what I suggested was never completed. julian On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > The eventual aim is to never use NON softupdates mode.. > > The system is not supposed to bonb with "filesystem full" when there are > > uncommitted delete operations on the softupdates queues. > > if it does, then there is a bug. It's suposed to kick off some faster > > reconciliation and hang around for a bit. > > Unless I'm mistaking you, this is in fact what happens: > > [morden|root] 21:34 ~ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0s2a 32254 21244 8430 72% / > /dev/wd0s2f 596286 534890 13694 98% /usr > /dev/wd1s3e 496367 456461 197 100% /usr2 > /dev/wd1s3f 396895 360004 5140 99% /home > /dev/wd0s2e 29727 7705 19644 28% /var > /dev/wd0s1 872640 848720 23920 97% /c > /dev/wd1s1 1023824 942256 81568 92% /d > /dev/wd1s5 511760 486472 25288 95% /e > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > mfs:31 20598 16 18936 0% /tmp > localhost:/ 0 0 0 100% /crypt > > [morden|root] 21:34 ~ pwd > /home/kkenn > [morden|root] 21:34 ~ mount > ... > /dev/wd1s3f on /home (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 1123 async 11409) > [morden|root] 21:34 ~ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024k count=20 > 20+0 records in > 20+0 records out > 20971520 bytes transferred in 11.454656 secs (1830829 bytes/sec) > [morden|root] 21:34 ~ df > > ... > > /dev/wd1s3f 396895 382092 -16948 105% /home > > [morden|root] 21:34 ~ rm bigfile > > [In another window, as a regular user] > > [morden|kkenn] 21:35 ~ cp /etc/motd . > > /home: write failed, file system is full > cp: ./motd: No space left on device > > This persists for 30 seconds exactly, until the clock expires and the > space is reclaimed. Given the state of fullness of my partitions, I run into > this quite frequently. I had always assumed it was just the way things were > with soft-updates. > > Kris > > ----- > (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its > productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter > of 1901. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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