> In message <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David
> Schwartz" writes:
> : It's really not a bug, it's just a missing feature. There's
> no requirement
> : that a filesystem reclaim empty space immediately. You really
> shouldn't be
> : using fastupdates on nearly full filesystems -- it doesn't handle that
> : situation particularly well.
>
> Nearly full? It is a 32M file system with 15M free. That's not
> nearly full.
Whether that qualifies as 'nearly full' or not depends upon the update
rate.
> The problem is that the update rate is faster than the
> softupdate code can deal with.
I would say a filesystem that adds new files in an amount close to its free
space is nearly full.
> Running sync between each install
> shows that this is a bug. sync is supposed to be idempotent.
I think anybody reasonable familiar with softupdates understands what
'sync' does in this context. It's not a bug because it is documented
behavior done for a specific reason.
DS
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