Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:18:09 +0000 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY Message-ID: <40388FF1.4000004@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <44n07c85md.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <4037A0BB.8030807@ant.uni-bremen.de> <44n07c85md.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> writes: > > >>I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean >>shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. >>man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency >>in case of crash, but thousands of lost files tell a different story. >>Did i miss anything? Or should i disable softupdates for important data? > > > Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware > itself... Does this also apply for RAID disks (twe)? Also, there is no word about this in man tuning(7). Is this more of a guess or is softupdates definately dangerous with wite cache enabled? I have also used softupdates with 4.9 and did not get these errors. > > >>The system is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 > > > I hope you have read the Early Adopter's Guide: > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/early-adopter.html Yes i have and after asking others on this list, got the impression that 5.2 is usable for the most common hardware and applications. But now i am seriously considering going back to 4.9 Thanks very much for your reply :-) Heinrich
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