cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c softdep.h

[Alexandr Kovalenko]

Hello, Alfred Perlstein!

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:26:49AM -0700, you wrote:

> > > ups         2005-08-10 14:09:26 UTC
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_6)
> > >     sys/ufs/ffs          ffs_softdep.c softdep.h 
> > >   Log:
> > >   MFC ffs_softdep.c 1.182, softdep.h 1.18
> > >   
> > >   Delay freeing disk space for file system blocks until all
> > >   dirty buffers are safely released. This fixes softdep
> > >   problems on truncation (deletion) of files with dirty
> > >   buffers.
> > 
> > Could this be the fix for the problem when unpacking large archives on
> > soft-updates-enabled volumes? (I experience complete lockup of
> > filesystem operations at some point of time during extracting files, for
> > example - cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1 && make extract)
> 
> Is it a perm lockup?  Or just for a couple of seconds?

I was waiting for ~5 minutes - no "unlockup" happened.

> If it's just for a couple of seconds it may be fixed by Jeffr's
> commit about a month ago to one of the buffer daemons.

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