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Date:      Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:05:22 -0400
From:      Stephan Uphoff <ups@tree.com>
To:        Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c softdep.h
Message-ID:  <1123686322.1360.44195.camel@palm>
In-Reply-To: <20050810144125.GA32594@nevermind.kiev.ua>
References:  <200508101409.j7AE9Qcq035408@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050810144125.GA32594@nevermind.kiev.ua>

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On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:41, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> Hello, Stephan Uphoff!
> 
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:09:26PM +0000, you wrote:
> 
> > ups         2005-08-10 14:09:26 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_6)
> >     sys/ufs/ffs          ffs_softdep.c softdep.h 
> >   Log:
> >   MFC ffs_softdep.c 1.182, softdep.h 1.18
> >   
> >   Delay freeing disk space for file system blocks until all
> >   dirty buffers are safely released. This fixes softdep
> >   problems on truncation (deletion) of files with dirty
> >   buffers.
> 
> Could this be the fix for the problem when unpacking large archives on
> soft-updates-enabled volumes? (I experience complete lockup of
> filesystem operations at some point of time during extracting files, for
> example - cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1 && make extract)

If the"make extract" deletes/truncates files and then writes new files
(allocates new blocks) you may have hit the bug. Please let me know if
you still encounter the lockup with the fix.

Stephan




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