Subject: Re: Softdeps temporarily hang/slow
To: None <arto.huusko@utu.fi>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/30/2001 19:53:09
Arto Huusko <arto.huusko@utu.fi> writes:
> But then the annoyance hit: at times the tar extraction stops
> for a moment, to flush the softdeps (or whatever) most likely,
> and this is as expected, but the real problem is that while
> the extraction is blocking, all else seems to do so too.

"Yup."

There are pretty bad issues remaining with softdep -- some of them
happen even in -current. I wonder if there aren't updates or patches
to the softdep code in freebsd that we are missing.

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