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Date:      Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:42:39 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make install trick 
Message-ID:  <199910052142.PAA05137@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Oct 1999 14:31:28 PDT." <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> 
References:  <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to>  

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In message <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> "David Schwartz" writes:
: 	It's really not a bug, it's just a missing feature. There's no requirement
: that a filesystem reclaim empty space immediately. You really shouldn't be
: using fastupdates on nearly full filesystems -- it doesn't handle that
: situation particularly well.

Nearly full?  It is a 32M file system with 15M free.  That's not
nearly full.  The problem is that the update rate is faster than the
softupdate code can deal with.  Running sync between each install
shows that this is a bug.  sync is supposed to be idempotent.

Warner


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