Joe Advisor wrote: > Interesting... so I did turn off softdep, and that did fix it. However, > based on my reading, I thought that softdep + disabling of write cache is > the "approved" mechanism for allowing for hard reboots without fsck. If > this is the case, does this mean that I am in an either / or situation... > as in, it is not possible to have rapid rewrites and rapid reboot > simultaneously. Or is sync in cron a reasonable approach?
Well, from my experience, softdep is not (directly) affected by sync's: $ set -x $ du -hsc softdep; sync; df softdep; ... <snipped; se below> + du -hsc softdep 107M softdep 107M total + sync + df softdep Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0e 4126444 1560848 2359276 40% /home + rm -rf softdep/upgrade + df softdep Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0e 4126444 1560848 2359276 40% /home + sync + sync + df softdep Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0e 4126444 1560848 2359276 40% /home + sleep 5 + sync + sync + df softdep Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0e 4126444 1352652 2567472 35% /home + sleep 30 + df softdep Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0e 4126444 1342632 2577492 34% /home + sync + sync + date Wed Dec 6 02:31:06 CET 2006 + df softdep Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0e 4126444 1342632 2577492 34% /home /Alexander
