RE: Softupdates Question
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex de Kruijff Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:57 PM To: Scott Sipe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates Question On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: Hi, At work we're running some rather old accounting software that tells us to disable oplocks and all caheing on our file server (and our clients)--Samba/FreeBSD isn't officially supported (the only platforms that are are Windows Server and Novell--yes, it's old) but we've been running fine on this configuration. The software is sensitive to data caching issues etc, and corruption is occasionally an issue. I have all oplocks disabled for the share in samba, and at the moment I have softupdates disabled on the accounting software mount. My question is, does activating softupdates add any risk of data loss? My guess is no, but I've wanted to play it safe. Our other samba shares all have softupdates enabled and do fine, and speed is becoming somewhat of an issue. No there's no risk of data loss. Yes, there is! Softupdates guarantees a consistent state of meta data. But there is a chance of losing a lot of recent file data changes. An other problem is, that Softupdates cannot know how much data is still in the hard disk's cache and not yet written back. I think it cannot easyly be answered, if it is better in this special configuration to run with or w/o Softupdates. Norbert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Softupdates Question
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: Hi, At work we're running some rather old accounting software that tells us to disable oplocks and all caheing on our file server (and our clients)--Samba/FreeBSD isn't officially supported (the only platforms that are are Windows Server and Novell--yes, it's old) but we've been running fine on this configuration. The software is sensitive to data caching issues etc, and corruption is occasionally an issue. I have all oplocks disabled for the share in samba, and at the moment I have softupdates disabled on the accounting software mount. My question is, does activating softupdates add any risk of data loss? My guess is no, but I've wanted to play it safe. Our other samba shares all have softupdates enabled and do fine, and speed is becoming somewhat of an issue. No there's no risk of data loss. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Softupdates Question
Hi, At work we're running some rather old accounting software that tells us to disable oplocks and all caheing on our file server (and our clients)--Samba/FreeBSD isn't officially supported (the only platforms that are are Windows Server and Novell--yes, it's old) but we've been running fine on this configuration. The software is sensitive to data caching issues etc, and corruption is occasionally an issue. I have all oplocks disabled for the share in samba, and at the moment I have softupdates disabled on the accounting software mount. My question is, does activating softupdates add any risk of data loss? My guess is no, but I've wanted to play it safe. Our other samba shares all have softupdates enabled and do fine, and speed is becoming somewhat of an issue. thanks, Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
