Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:21:22 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> To: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@mckusick.com Subject: Re: Any outstanding soft-updates or FFS bugs (matching this description)? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011201120130.4329-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <3A1212BC.F648B2E9@cvzoom.net>
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > Matt Dillon wrote: > > > I've had filesystems blow up under test when filling a parition > > with softupdates turned on. The most recent time was last > > weekend while I was testing low-memory stuff. > > It would be nice if the softupdates code (or maybe other kernel code > could do this) could detect when filesystem space is running low, and > kick into some "fail-safe" mode. For example, when the free space drops > below 15%, softupdates could automatically shut itself off, and then > turn itself back on when the free space rises above 20% (hysteresis). I don't know if it's possible (I mean, how hard it's to implement), but 15% of 60Gb it's a lot of space (for example). Just my 0.02$ --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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