Subject: Re: > 4 gig (was softdep)
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/18/2003 02:28:14
John Klos wrote:
> That, I am guessing, is a different problem. Softdeps yes/no was asked
> about corruption of > 4 gig slices in 1.6; it happened the same no matter.
> Softdeps are fixed in 1.6, apparently, as many people get heavy use out of
> systems with softdeps without corruption.
>
> The issue is whether 1.5.2 or, perhaps, 1.5.3 even, can handle > 4 gig
> slices without eventual corruption.
Ah, ok.. I'm still running 1.5.1 on the machine in question and after I
switched off softdeps I've never had a fs-related panic again (the
partition in question is 4.3 gigs in size).
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Matthias Buelow