On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:47:17PM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, and there are several PR's open on it. For me, it was the
> > > experience of moving some large directory trees around after
> > > installing a new 60gb disk that finally convinced me to turn softdeps
> > > off forever.
> >
> > How did the buggy softdeps get into an official release?
> 
> It's an option. "We give you enough rope to hang yourself."
> 
> To be fair, I used it for nearly a year with out any evident problems.

I'm not convinced softdeps are nearly as buggy as some people seem to
think they are.  I *am* convinced that they make you far, far more
vulnerable to buggy hardware, e.g. IDE disks that claim to not have a
cache, but actually (as your 60GB disk does) probably have several
megabytes of it, and report writes complete when they hit the cache,
not the disk.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
    And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
  foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
						   William Styron