On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:52, David Cecil wrote: > Can anyone tell me src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates and > README.snapshots are up to date? The former is dated June 2000, so it's > almost 7 years old. The snapshots readme is only 2 years younger and > mentions the code being alpha-test. >
I can answer indirectly. sysinstall, the default FreeBSD installer, enables soft-updates by default on every filesystem, except the root filesystem. I think this is true since the 4.x days. This must make them pretty well tested. I do not the exact status of snapshots. Perhaps you should ask freebsd-fs. I know some problems regarding snapshots are now resolved. > The problems I'm seeing in 6.1 are: > 1. After writing a lot if data/files to a filesystem with soft-updates > enabled, then unmounting or remounting it: > update error: /: blocks <n> files <y> > It appears others have seen this too. It appears that an attempt to > flush the buffers to disk as part of the unmount failed. Is this a > known issue? > Could you describe how to reproduce the error? That would be really useful. HTH, Nikos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
