Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:12:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@highperformance.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make world fills / Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103220005400.37489-100000@server.highperformance.net> In-Reply-To: <20010321235538.D574@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com>
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Do you have softupdates enabled on /? When a file is unlinked, it is > not actually removed from the disk right away. This can be a problem > when you don't have a lot of headroom on the filesystem. jcw@server ~ $ mount /dev/da0a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) Ta da. I thought I would do this in preparation for the coming fscklessness that McCusick writes about. I didn't see any harm in it. I guess I'll just have to be careful. That or run 'sync' repeatedly during installworlds. I don't wake world often enough for this to be a major headache. Can one un-tunefs softupdates? Thanks, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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