Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:47:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: thomma@BayNetworks.COM, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld and softupdates Message-ID: <199810090447.VAA23251@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199810082239.PAA20091@usr06.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 8, 98 10:39:09 pm"
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Terry Lambert writes: > > I have a machine whose / partition is 32MB and about 10MB > > space left. Softupdates is enabled on / as well as other > > partitions. > > > > The buildworld completes with a hitch. Then installworld always > > fails when updating /sbin with / file system full. > > After the failure, when I did df, I saw 9MB left. > > > > Then I thought that softupdates was delay^H^H^H^H^Hoptimizing the > > temporary file space reclaim which install -s (stripping) creates and > > deletes very quickly during installworld. > > > > It turned off softupdates and tried installworld. > > > > Bingo! It completed. > > > > So be careful when your / is running out and do make world/installworld. > > Disk space held by uncommitted deletes depending on other operations > is, by definition, not reusable until such time as the operations are > committed. Another way of looking at it is this: softupdates breaks the traditional "contract" (whether it was really a contract or not is for debate) that when a file removal completes, the disk space taken by the file is then immediately available for re-use. Instead, it is only guaranteed to become available a short time later in the future. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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