Interesting... so I did turn off softdep, and that did fix it. However, based
on my reading, I thought that softdep + disabling of write cache is the
"approved" mechanism for allowing for hard reboots without fsck. If this is
the case, does this mean that I am in an either / or situation... as in, it is
not possible to have rapid rewrites and rapid reboot simultaneously. Or is
sync in cron a reasonable approach?
Thanks in advance.
"Thordur I. Bjornsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe Advisor wrote on Tue
5.Dec'06 at 11:57:03 -0800
> Hi all,
>
> If I rapidly rewrite a file, for example:
>
> while true; do echo "foo" > /foo; done;
softdep ?
>
> Or for example:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> for (1 .. 100000) {
> MyStuff::Util::writeFile('/root/foo', $blah);
> }
>
> The filesystem eventually says filesystem full.
>
> Obviously those are corner cases because I am rapidly rewriting. But even if
> I don't rapidly rewrite, if I just rewrite for example, once every few
> seconds, based on changes to the environment, etc., the filesystem still
> fills up. If I make the filesystems bigger, that helps, but I was wondering
> if there is another way.
>
> If I put a sync in cron, that helps a lot too. That seemed like a kludge,
> wasn't sure if that's the right thing to do.
>
> Is there a global setting, perhaps some sysctl, that I need to modify, to
> prevent this from happening?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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