From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 3 20:34:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18012 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:34:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17996 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:33:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA03635; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:33:39 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199812040433.UAA03635@apollo.backplane.com> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Ronald Kuehn , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> The /var filesystem does not have soft updates enabled. :> I got a dump, but not from a debugging kernel. :> :> [ current as of Dec 2 ] : :Just wondering, why are people running softupdates and non-softupdates on :the same box, or just plain not using softupdates? : :I thought that it is as reliable as regular mounts and faster? Or are :there issues that I haven't noticed? : :Or are you guys testing for the FreeBSD project? : :-Alfred I don't know about everyone else, but I'm running softupdates on all of our production FreeBSD-current boxes at BEST (a grand total of 1 machine at the moment), and all of my home machines (3 boxes). All partitions. I've had zero problems with it. The plan at BEST is to turn on softupdates on all partitions on all -current machines as we migrate boxes over from -stable over the next few months and since BEST is a commercial environment, we've paid Kick's site license fee. I am running with vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0, however until the crashes / crash confusion is resolved - the reported crashes/fs-corruption is just too dangerous for me to risk turning it on. Once fixed I expect doreallocblks to be a boon to the news and web servers. -Matt Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet Communications & God knows what else. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message