Subject: Re: Deleting files
To: Michael Kukat <michael@bsdfans.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/17/2003 17:59:01
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Kukat wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > > Are you using softdep or are you using "classic sync mounted" filesystems?
> > > async mounting is not really good, but softdeps improves performance
> > > drastically for such operations.
> >
> > It should improve things, but deleting files is more than just modifying
> > the inode.
> >
> > If softdep could only become stable enough for me to use on my
> > VAXen... :-)
> 
> Isn't it? I used it without any problems on my 4000/105A a while ago in
> 1.5.somewhat.

I've tried it a number of times on my 8650, the last time was at 1.6I I
think.

Every time it's the same. After running build.sh for a while, I get a
panic.

But it might survive better if not stressed that much, but what is the
point in that?

	Johnny

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