Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:42:25 -0500 From: "Jonathan Fosburgh" <fosburgh@flash.net> To: "Agent Drek" <drek@zupa.bigstudios.com>, <wonko@entropy.tmok.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: softupdates Message-ID: <022a01bfcfe6$fa350670$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> References: <Pine.BSI.3.96r.1000606133917.3186K-100000@shell1.interlog.com>
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FYI, I have been bit by this bug too, with softupdates enabled. Fortunately, most of /var survived, unfortunately, /var/db/pkg was hosed and fsck still can't clean it. For the most part, however, softupdates have only been helpful. I only loose data now if I have a panic (which I don't think has happened since I upgraded to 4.0 some time ago), X locks up, or there was a power outage right at a time when a file was being updated. Without softupdates, I often would loose a number of files in the above cases, now maybe one, and that is rare. Jonathan Fosburgh Open Systems Communications and Computer Services UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX 77030 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Agent Drek" <drek@zupa.bigstudios.com> To: <wonko@entropy.tmok.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:40 PM Subject: Re: softupdates > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: > > > i setup a FreeBSD file server at work, and during a dd to a floppy it got > > hard read errors and paniced the machine (woo-hoo!! i hate floppy drives) > > so at that point i thought, maybe i should enable softupdates. > > was the floppy write protected? I got bit by that bug previously. I don't > think that softupdates will help you there ... in other areas? possibly. > > > > > but what should i know before i do this? this machine has to be stable, so > > i won't do it if it introduces instability (even if it makes recovering > > easier) and also what about performance? it's hooked up to a hardware RAID > > box if that makes any difference. > > > > thanks, > > > > -brian > > > > -- > Agent Drek > > Big Animation Inc > 'digital plumber' > http://www.bigstudios.com > > > > 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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