Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:55:54 -0500 From: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: journalised filesystem Message-ID: <20010607115554.A18958@mpi-plusplus.mpi-softtech.com> In-Reply-To: <15135.38174.554745.239920@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:52:14AM -0500 References: <56725799@toto.iv> <15135.38174.554745.239920@guru.mired.org>
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Its a good thing disk space is getting cheaper then eh? :) Dave > There's one catch. Soft udpates causes free space to be available > slightly slower than otherwise. I don't mean that deleting a file is > slower - I believe the opposite is true - but that you aren't able to > use the space that's been freed by deleting the file immediately. So > the sequence of deleting and then recreating a file larger than the > free space on the drive will fail where it wouldn't have before. > > The only time I've ever seen this happen in practice is installing a > new kernel on a small root file system. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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