On 2, Feb, 2001 at 09:18:04AM +0100, Martin Akesson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:30:43PM -0600, Paul Doom mumbled:
> >
> > I only had problems with kernel panics, and never filesystem
> > corruption. Are folks seeing problems with filsystem corruption with
> > softdeps on 2.8?
> >
> Oh yes, I've had major diskcrash twice on my homedesktop 2.8 system.
> At first I figured I had a bad disk (WD Caviar 26400) however the disk
> is AOK after complete reformat. What I get when using in in a 2.8
> environment is alot of softerrors and really poor performance.
>
> This time I will disable softupdates in my kernel and hopefully have a
> system lasting more than a week.

I had some of the same prolems about 6 months ago, after discussing it
on misc the consensus was that it takes a bit of memory to buffer the
disk I/O ... I've now upgraded to 128MB af memory, but I don't dare to
try softupdates yet.

I found that I could "reliably" lock the machine with something like
'rm -PRf "qt2-source-unpacked"', or another big bunch of files.
It's the 'P' option to 'rm' that boosts the I/O out of range for what
softupdates can take ...

HAND
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