Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:04:13 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: street@iname.com (Kevin Street), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates panics Message-ID: <199809280104.SAA06330@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:31:08 -0000." <199809272131.OAA29999@usr05.primenet.com>
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It was also posted on the list (several months ago) to disable or refuse, async or noatime with softupdates. Amancio > > Well, this certainly started an interesting series on noatime and SU. > > If I could just review the score so far, we have: > > > > 1 for "It's a Bad Thing" later retracted > > 2 for "I've never heard this and I do it, you must be thinking of async" > > 1 for "It's superstition, noatime and SU are fine" > > 2 for "It likely triggers an access change that exposes a SU bug" > > 1 for "It breaks your dependency graph into pieces" > > (perhaps I should count this as 2 for "Bad Thing") > > > > I think we need a decision from the referee. > > Well, feel free to ask Kirk. My claim that it's a bad thing came > from a discussion of noatime and Soft Updates with Kirk and Julian > in Julian's cube several months ago. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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