Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 05:08:29 -0500 From: Benjamin Lewis <bhlewis@gte.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and sync Message-ID: <199810171008.FAA20562@home.bhl> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:29:06 MST." <199810170729.AAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > If I remove a huge directory with on a volume that has soft > > updates enabled, then my df avail stat doesn't change (although the > > rm happens very very fast). So, I type sync, and there isn't much > > disk activity and the df stat is still the same. So I wait a while, > > no disk activity. After 5 minutes I unmount and remount the volume. > > The unmout causes a huge amount of traffic to the disk. On remount > > the missing space reappears. > It's "normal", but it shouldn't take minutes; the buckets are meant to > cycle around every 30 seconds or so. You haven't tweaked the update > timer by any chance, have you? I think the same sort of thing was happening to me yesterday. I also managed to panic the machine by forcing a write to a read-only file (as root) and since I had just done a make aout-to-elf, fsck was very unhappy after the reboot. I've since disabled softupdates on my /usr partition (they were never enabled on /), and everything's fine (if a lot slower). -Ben -- Benjamin Lewis bhlewis@gte.net -or- bhlewis@purdue.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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