Hello, What's the deal with soft updates and guaranteed consistency? Every time journaling is brought up by someone, he/she is promptly told about how soft updates does the job at least as well. I never had a problem with this based on what I have read about soft updates. However:
I *very* quickly ran into a case where I got an "unexpected soft update inconsistency" after crashing the machine by doing something naughty with Vinum while there was disk activity (note: the filesystem which exhibited the problem was not on a vinum volume). So my question is: Do soft updates, or do they not, algorithmically guarantee filesystem meta-data consistency in the event of a crash? or to put it another way: Was this an implementation bug or a fact of life with soft updates? Thanks, -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
