5-STABLE softupdates issue?

[Michael Nottebrock]

Matthias Andree wrote:


> I posted about softupdate problems on a SCSI system with DISABLED WRITE
> CACHE, on a somewhat flakey Micropolis drive that froze and caused
> massive ffs+softupdates corruption in February 2004 (on FreeBSD 4
> though), see <URL:http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?m38yj15m59.fsf>
> for the archived post, including logs.

FWIW, I'm used to "UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATE INCONSISTENCY" erros as well, been 
getting them every now and then after the occasional system lockup or kernel 
panic as long as I've been running freebsd and I'm pretty sure with each 
release since 4.0-R, too. I didn't know those are _literally_ unexpected. If 
so, then softupdates is a probably lot more flaky than it ought to be.

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