Subject: Re: Why not softdep per default?
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/2005 10:01:45
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On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:57, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE> writes:
> > On a VAX, you're lucky if the system lives 10 minutes before it
> > crash. And that is still true in -current.
>
> Uh -- my 4000-500 has been running with softdeps on all file systems
> for a couple of weeks now, spending most of that time churning through
> software builds, with lots of disk I/O.  Not a glitch to be seen.  :-)

Try unplugging it while it's mid-build.  If that works, try it 10 times mor=
e=20
at various points.  If you FS lives, cool.  Mine does not, on i386.

softdep works wonderfully in use, but it's the failure cases that toast=20
filesystems, from my experience.

=2D-Michael

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