Subject: Re: Why not softdep per default?
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/2005 16:59:49
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, 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.  :-)
> It's running -current as of a couple of weeks ago.

Interesting. I've tried it a number of times on my 8650. Hangs every time.
I've tried it just a few weeks ago on my 3100/76, it hung pretty quick
once more.
Never succeeded in getting it to work on any VAX I've tried.
Always with -current. I could try it again tonight, and see what happens.

	Johnny

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