Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 18:59:13 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Softupdates code not Prime Time yet. Message-ID: <3505FE01.695678E2@whistle.com>
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This is to let those of you who are looking a the soft-updates code, know that there are still several known problems with the code. We have 2 (possibly but not neccesarily related) crash scenarios, and also a dependency tracking failure. The latter means that there are cases (hey let's be real, USUALLY) where a crash with softupdates running on an active filesystem, will have similar corrupting actions as running async (or at least sync) at the time of a crash. This is a BUG (unlike in async where it is a feature :-) and we are trying to find the missing dependency. So while it's good to play with and really fast, it should still be only used on replaceable data (e.g. /usr/obj) Thanks for all the testing and support! julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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