Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Heinrich, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 5:00:27 PM, you wrote: > Why that? I can imagine that i lose data in case of a power failure, but > why in case of a crash? Well I guess the card COULD still commit the data, however, who knows if it actually does it? > And why is write cache only dange

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Heinrich, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 6:49:46 PM, you wrote: > what you write does make sense, although i really can't understand why > this important info is not in the FreeBSD documentation. > I have disabled write cache, but i will keep softupdates disabled as > well for now, and see how t

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Hello Heinrich, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 5:00:27 PM, you wrote: Why that? I can imagine that i lose data in case of a power failure, but why in case of a crash? Well I guess the card COULD still commit the data, however, who knows if it actually does it? And why is wri

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Hi Heinrich Rebehn, you wrote. Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware itself... HR> Does this also apply for RAID disks (twe)? Also, there is no word about HR> this in man tuning(7). Is this more of a guess or is softupdates HR> definately dangerous

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Heinrich Rebehn, you wrote. >> Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware >> itself... HR> Does this also apply for RAID disks (twe)? Also, there is no word about HR> this in man tuning(7). Is this more of a guess or is softupdates HR> definately dangerous with wite cache e

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency in case of crash, but thousands of

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean > shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. > man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency > in case of crash, but thousands of lost files tell

UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-21 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency in case of crash, but thousands of lost files tell a different story. Did i miss anything?