> I have soft updates enabled on a fast machine at work. make
> installworld can fill up slash even though it has 15M free before the
> install. I think this is a bug in softupdates that it doesn't reclaim
> space quickly enough or in overflow situations.
It's really not a bug, it's just a missing feature. There's no requirement
that a filesystem reclaim empty space immediately. You really shouldn't be
using fastupdates on nearly full filesystems -- it doesn't handle that
situation particularly well.
Once could even argue that it's preferable to force the make to abort than
thrash the filesystem. Though a switch to allow it to thrash might be
helpful in degenerate cases such as this.
Fastupdates is great for the most common case -- a typical /usr or /home
partition. That's where you care about write performance anyway.
DS
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