Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:39:05 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: David Cecil <david.cecil@nokia.com> Subject: Re: fsck, soft-updates, and snapshots Message-ID: <200703131739.06657.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <45F61FEE.1030800@nokia.com> References: <45F61FEE.1030800@nokia.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:52, David Cecil wrote: > Can anyone tell me src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates and > README.snapshots are up to date? The former is dated June 2000, so it's > almost 7 years old. The snapshots readme is only 2 years younger and > mentions the code being alpha-test. > I can answer indirectly. sysinstall, the default FreeBSD installer, enables soft-updates by default on every filesystem, except the root filesystem. I think this is true since the 4.x days. This must make them pretty well tested. I do not the exact status of snapshots. Perhaps you should ask freebsd-fs. I know some problems regarding snapshots are now resolved. > The problems I'm seeing in 6.1 are: > 1. After writing a lot if data/files to a filesystem with soft-updates > enabled, then unmounting or remounting it: > update error: /: blocks <n> files <y> > It appears others have seen this too. It appears that an attempt to > flush the buffers to disk as part of the unmount failed. Is this a > known issue? > Could you describe how to reproduce the error? That would be really useful. HTH, Nikos
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200703131739.06657.nvass>