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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Alex <ayk1@ukc.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: file disappeared?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904261320010.21452-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.990426192609.17876C-100000@ash.ukc.ac.uk>

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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Alex wrote:

> > > pcayk:~/tmp$ df -k .
> > > Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > > /dev/wd0s1f    7621844  6975669    36428    99%    /usr
> > > 
> > > pcayk:~/tmp$ ls -l
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 ayk1  users 716247040 Apr 22  1999 bigcdimage.iso
> > > 
> > > pcayk:~/tmp$ rm bigcdimage.iso
> > > 
> > > pcayk:~/tmp$ df -k .
> > > Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > > /dev/wd0s1f    7621844  6975669    36428    99%    /usr
> > > 
> > > How on earth did that happen?!!!
> > 
> > Are you running soft updates?  It takes ~30s for changes to take effect if
> > you are.  I noticed this myself last week.
> 
> I believe not - doesn't that involve adding a "SOFTUPDATES" option to the
> kernel?  I don't have that in my kernel; therefore, disc access should be
> synchronous by default, right?  And it had definitely been longer than 30s
> before I decided to run fsck (or before the first run completed). 

If you're running default disk access then I'm guessing some program still
has the file open.  Perhaps 'cdrecord' hung?

> > I assume this was in single user mode, otherwise you made a gigantic mess.
> > :-)
> 
> I did, didn't I?

For the future, running fsck in multiuser mode is a no-no.

Doug White                               
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