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Date:      Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:47:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Cc:        julian@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Panic with CURRENT & softupdates-240298
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.980303164538.6994B-100000@shadow.worldbank.org>
In-Reply-To: <DFDA8E5E3D0BB731852565BC0070162A.006F97C5852565BC@worldbank.org>

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Mind explaining what soft-updates does?

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 roberto@keltia.freenix.fr wrote:

> 
> 
> According to Julian Elischer:
> > ok, I'm going to get back to soft-updates in the second part of this
> > week..
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> As soon as I put softupdates on /news at home or on /home at work, it will
> panic. Without "noatime" it seems a bit more stable but it may be just
> masking the problem.
> 
> > I hope that it's working well for you other than this panic?
> 
> Except this particular panic, I'm very impressed and happy with
> softupdates. It is the last thing that refrain me to switch softupdates on
> all my filesystems.
> 
> /dev/sd0a on / (local, writes: sync 59 async 7117)
> /dev/sd0s2e on /usr (local, writes: sync 2 async 3122)
> /dev/sd2s4a on /var (local, writes: sync 127777 async 49021)
> /dev/sd0s2f on /usr/local (local, writes: sync 110 async 7134)
> /dev/sd0s2g on /users (local, writes: sync 29107 async 31641)
> /dev/sd2s4e on /news (asynchronous, local, noatime, writes: sync 12047 
> async 38681)
> /dev/sd0s2h on /src (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 4 async 205)
> /dev/sd2s4d on /spare (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 24 async 530)
> /dev/sd0s2d on /work (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 277 async 4955)
> /dev/sd12a on /x (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 4 async 1474)
> /dev/sd2s4f on /y (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 4 async 0)
> /dev/sd1s1e on /z (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 4 async 0)
> 
> --
> Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- 
> roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
> FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Mar  1 18:50:39 CET 1998
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