Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:54:02 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_alloc.c ffs_extern.h ffs_softdep.c Message-ID: <20020122155402.GB341@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpk7uao9l5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200201220617.g0M6HOx41725@freefall.freebsd.org> <1011697733.442.0.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> <xzpk7uao9l5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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--qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue Jan 22, 2002 at 01:26:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> writes: > > This change breaks kernels without softupdates. >=20 > Why do we even bother supporting that? (apart from the fact that the > installation kernel is built without SU, though it would greatly > benefit from it: in most cases, installation is bounded by the > filesystem write speed) I thought it was not recommended to use SU on small space-limited filesystems (such as /)? My understanding is that this commit tries to address that issue but is still limited by time, ie. if the cleanup takes too much time, an error is still returned for full fs. A. --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxNixkACgkQttcWHAnWiGdQfgCfV66OmzlwR4TWHFesMJbVD2Ci w/EAnAm1MFaVyvyxDmg1c7S11DmtpgHX =fHUO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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