Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:35:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: dg@root.com, sysadmin@mfn.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hua@nease.net, rivers@dignus.com Subject: RE: Is there any "race condition" in FFS? Message-ID: <199806161735.NAA00650@lakes.dignus.com>
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> > Ahhh... Now I feel better! From the context, I thought this was a common > phenomenon... > > May I ask what hardware config and file system layout has been associated > with this (I'd *hate* to be one of the 1 in 200,000!)... The problem has been cited on 386, 486 and Pentium computers; with both SCSI and IDE drivers, and large/small memory sizes. It doesn't appear there's a direct correlation to any particular hardware. Could you send me your configuration so I can add it to the list? - Dave Rivers - > > J.A. Terranson > sysadmin@mfn.org > > Dave has had problems since nearly the very beginning of FreeBSD. If we > >were able to reproduce the problem, then we'd likely have fixed it. I believe > >there is a real problem, but it seems to show up in only about 1 in 200,000 > >systems. It is extremely unlikely that you'll ever see it. I think the problem > >is sensitive to filesystem layout and possibly some kind of race condition, > >but that's just a guess based on data that Dave has provided. > > We successfully handle several hundred thousand emails/day through the > >project's mail server, so if that's not good enough, then I don't really know > >what is. > > >-DG > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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