> I have more up to date versions of these patches around here. > > The problem with them is that fundamentally, the WAPBL implementation > as it is assumes that it may infinitely steal > buffers from the buffer cache and hold onto them indefinitely - and it > assumes it can always get buffers from it. While the patch as it sits > may "work" in the "happy case" on many people's machines, as it sits > today it is dangerous and can lock up your machine and corrupt things > in low memory situations. > > Basically in order to progres WAPBL (renamed "FFS Journalling" here) > needs to have a mechanism added to allow > it be told "no it can't have a buffer" and let it deal with it > correctly. The first part is done, the latter part is complex.
Thanks for the update. I completely understand that you are holding back these patches. This attitude to correctness is one of the pillars that make OpenBSD great. Kind regards, Martijn Rijkeboer
