Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:58:47 -0500 From: greeves <sysadmin@mfn.org> To: greeves <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "'dg@root.com'" <dg@root.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "hua@nease.net" <hua@nease.net>, "'Thomas David Rivers'" <rivers@dignus.com> Subject: RE: Is there any "race condition" in FFS? Message-ID: <01BD990D.5B9296C0@greeves.mfn.org>
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Ahhh... Now I feel better! From the context, I thought this was a common phenomenon... May I ask what hardware config and file system layout has been associated with this (I'd *hate* to be one of the 1 in 200,000!)... J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org > Dave has had problems since nearly the very beginning of FreeBSD. If we >were able to reproduce the problem, then we'd likely have fixed it. I believe >there is a real problem, but it seems to show up in only about 1 in 200,000 >systems. It is extremely unlikely that you'll ever see it. I think the problem >is sensitive to filesystem layout and possibly some kind of race condition, >but that's just a guess based on data that Dave has provided. > We successfully handle several hundred thousand emails/day through the >project's mail server, so if that's not good enough, then I don't really know >what is. >-DG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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