From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 21:53: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207F237B402 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0V5r4973876; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:53:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from maxpower (trilluser@maxpower.lan.27in.tv [10.0.0.250]) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g0V5r3873862; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:53:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) From: "C J Michaels" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: Subject: RE: Softupdates ( why not to use on / fs ) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:53:40 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <15448.34219.325331.975819@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer bestowed this upon us: <...snip...> > I think the real reason that softupdates is disabled on root is that > there has been a history of kernel installs failing in that > configuration. Softupdates can cause the space occupied by a deleted > file to not become available for as much as 30 seconds after the > delete happens. If you are tight on space on root, this can make > removing the kernel and a bunch of kld's and then copying new ones > into place fail. Wouldn't a sync(8) between the delete(s) and the write(s) solve this problem? or is it just way past my bed time again? :) > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. 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