> > That is interesting. So I guess the conclusion to this is, softupdates
> > is useful for bursty IO, but not sustained because it can get far behind
> > until it eventually reaches the point where the machine reboots silently.
> > I guess the delay until reboot is dependent on the size of max_softdeps.
> > If it is big, it takes a while.
>
> I mentioned this a while back in the context of suspended I/O (in this
> case, a RAID array busy dealing with a failed disk). There wasn't much
> interest in dealing with it evinced at that point.
(Obviously this implies that I can reproduce it at will, and will happily
do so for anyone that wants it...)
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