On 1999-Oct-07 01:51:52 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>First post:
> hey, anyone having crashes when doing installworld might like
> my INSTALL="sync && install -C" trick
I haven't kept that post. My recollection is that the problem was
installworld dying, not the system crashing. If I misread or
mis-remember the post, my apologies.
>no matter which option you choose you can still get bitten by
>softupdates when you do run out of space even by a trusted
>user such as root.
Softupdates reporting ENOSPC soon after a delete is a known bug.
At this stage the recommended workaround (according to Kirk) is
not to run softupdates on filesystems where this condition is
likely. If anyone wants to fix it, patches would be welcomed
by Kirk or Julian.
If softupdates is causing panics, that is an extremely undesirable
bug. I haven't been bitten (yet) and don't have a solution.
My view is that the remainder of the thread has been discussing the
relative merits of different ways to avoid the problem.
Peter
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