From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 28 0:30:27 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3597837BB44; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA11604; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:30:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:30:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Blaz Zupan Cc: Josef Karthauser , mckusick@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates softdep.h ffs_softdep.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It looks to me that this maybe was addressed in revs 1.49-1.51 of ffs_softdep.c. The authors (peter, kirk) can confirm/deny. I run softdeps on a lot of filesystem- most with not *that* heavy load, but at least one make world a day. The PR you report should in fact cause a failure under that. I think it's been fixed. On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Blaz Zupan wrote: > > Your comments are a bit unfair. *You* haven't been running the currently > > released product with Softupdates. You have excellent reasons to be concerned > > because of your previous experience, but your statement of "A number of times > > this year I've lost whole filesystems on an SMP..." is misleading at best. > > How about > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17122 > > I remember hitting this on a couple of 3.4 boxes and had to turn off > softupdates (those were production machines). It was not even a SMP machine. > The PR is still open, and I guess still present in 4.0 (I vaguely remember > hitting it on a 4.0 box as well, where I forgot to turn off softupdates). The > PR is talking about the machine crashing every 1-3 days, mine was crashing > more like twice per month. Since that time I don't turn on softupdates on any > of my production boxes. > > Unfortunetlly I cannot contribute anything to the PR itself, as: > 1. All the machines that exhibited the problem where production machines. > 2. My home work box (running 5.0-CURRENT) doesn't exhibit the problem, > probably because it is being turned off every day and there is no real load > on the machine. > 3. When the machines crashed, I didn't have a debug kernel running so the > crashdumps would be mostly useless. > > Blaz Zupan, Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia > E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message