Re: minor bug with softupdates maybe?

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

root <lists@gecko.math.ualberta.ca> wrote:

> i was updating my /usr/src this morning and my box wedged.

"Updating" is somewhat unspecific.

> anyway the bottom line is that softupdates seem to need a little more
> work, and can really kill a filesystem.

I experience soft updates crashes quite regularly when creating
largish directory trees (i.e. extracting tar archives) or removing
them.  However, damage so far has been pretty much limited to the
respective directory tree.  It hasn't killed a filesystem yet, and
I don't expect it to.

Anyway, neither of this qualifies as "minor".

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de