On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: [deleted]
> catastrophic consequences in the very rare case of someone doing what > I did (mounting async, doing a lot of writing followed by a system > crash). I'm trying to make the argument that there could be a problem > that is benign in 99.99% of the NetBSD setups, and so you haven't > heard about. I should amend this a bit. By 'benign' above, I meant that you wouldn't lose the filesystem. But if trickle-sync is working too slowly or not at all, I would think that, in the event of a crash preceded by writes to a softdep-mounted filesystem, more data could be lost than if trickle-sync were working as intended. Which wouldn't feel so benign if it happened to you. /Don
