On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, 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?
Please wrap your lines.
There is NO approved way of circumventing fsck with a rw filesystem.
Rapid rewrites are not a problem, as long as you do not do them so
fast that softdep cannot keep up.
I'm wondering what kind of problem you are trying to solve. Why do you
need to rewrite a file that fast?
-Otto
