svn commit: r219667 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit

[Kirk McKusick]

> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:25:20 -0700
> From: Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org>
> To: Marius Strobl <marius at alchemy.franken.de>
> CC: Kirk McKusick <mckusick at mckusick.com>,
>         Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head at FreeBSD.org,
>         Jeff Roberson <jeff at FreeBSD.org>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin at FreeBSD.org>,
>         svn-src-all at FreeBSD.org, src-committers at FreeBSD.org,
>         kvedulv at kvedulv.de
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r219667 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit
> 
> On 03/20/2011 09:22, Marius Strobl wrote:
> 
> > I fear it's still a bit premature for enable SU+J by default. Rather
> > recently I was told about a SU+J filesystems lost after a panic
> > that happend after snapshotting it (report CC'ed, maybe he can
> > provide some more details) and I'm pretty sure I've seen the problem
> > described in PR 149022 also after the potential fix mentioned in its
> > feedback.
> 
> +1
> 
> I tried enabling SU+J on my /var (after backing up of course) and after 
> a panic random files were missing entirely. Not the last updates to 
> those files, the whole file, and many of them had not been written to in 
> days/weeks/months.
> 
> With all due respect to the hard work that went into the code, I would 
> be very uncomfortable with enabling it by default at this point.
> 
> 
> Doug

With all due respect, how can we fix things that nobody reports?
If you have a problem, let us know about it. And of course, we
need something more specific than the above.

	Kirk McKusick