Subject: Re: Softdep disk usage issue
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 12/20/1999 10:14:03
In message <199912201531.KAA12487@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>, der Mouse write
s:
>This I can't really understand.  It would mean that when checking to
>see if the disk is full, the filesystem code somehow reads the disk
>directly instead of hitting the block waiting to be pushed.

Sort of.

BSD/OS got a bug report on this, and apparently, the current generation of
softdep code leaves the "free space" state in line with what's been written,
not with what's expected to be written.  Not sure why.

-s