Re: Softupdates And Samba

2010-11-20 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Daneliuk wrote: I installed another SATA drive on a FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE box here last night. After the disk prep, I mounted it and then shared the whole drive via Samba. This morning when I came in, the machine had horked all over itself and I saw this in the log after the reboot:

RE: Softupdates Question

2005-07-15 Thread Norbert Koch
-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

Re: Softupdates Question

2005-07-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
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

Re: softupdates, adding space to partitions, etc

2004-08-04 Thread Bill Moran
Comrade Burnout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that I didn't create *quite* enough space in my /var partition for accepting somewhat larger email attachments/ messages. i thought softupdates was the way to go, but on reading the handbook online, that's not quite what i thought it

Re: softupdates, adding space to partitions, etc

2004-08-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
I just noticed that I didn't create *quite* enough space in my /var partition for accepting somewhat larger email attachments/ messages. i thought softupdates was the way to go, but on reading the handbook online, that's not quite what i thought it was is there any way with 5.2.1

Re: softupdates, adding space to partitions, etc

2004-08-04 Thread Comrade Burnout
Jerry McAllister wrote: I just noticed that I didn't create *quite* enough space in my /var partition for accepting somewhat larger email attachments/ messages. i thought softupdates was the way to go, but on reading the handbook online, that's not quite what i thought it was is

Re: softupdates, adding space to partitions, etc

2004-08-04 Thread Comrade Burnout
Bill Moran wrote: Comrade Burnout [1][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that I didn't create *quite* enough space in my /var partition for accepting somewhat larger email attachments/ messages. i thought softupdates was the way to go, but on reading the handbook online, that's not

Re: Softupdates: df, du, sync and fsck [quite long]

2003-06-30 Thread John Ekins
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:12:05 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Hmmm ... not good. A little more research might qualify this problem for a PR. I was thinking that myself :-) - Yikes! Is the machine still responsive? Sometimes you can put the load that - high and still have a

Re: Softupdates: df, du, sync and fsck [quite long]

2003-06-28 Thread John Ekins
Hello Bill, On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:53:30 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I don't know what's wrong, but does unmounting and remounting the partition - reclaim the lost space? Alas, I can't umount the partition, my guess is because it is unable to sync (nothing to do with open

Re: Softupdates: df, du, sync and fsck [quite long]

2003-06-28 Thread Bill Moran
John Ekins wrote: Hello Bill, On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:53:30 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I don't know what's wrong, but does unmounting and remounting the partition - reclaim the lost space? Alas, I can't umount the partition, my guess is because it is unable to sync (nothing to do

Re: Softupdates: df, du, sync and fsck [quite long]

2003-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
John Ekins wrote: Hello, I've a couple of questions about soft updates. I've Googled heavily on this but not really found a satisfactory answer. The story: I'm running on numerous FreeBSD 4.7 SMP machines as primary MX machines. The mail is not stored on the FreeBSD machines but on NetApps via

Re: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-22 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-21 14:52:45 -0500: the reason that they disabled by default on / is almost certainly because the / is usually *small*, not large. thus spoke Terry Lambert in Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : I believe the reason it's not on in sysinstall is that

Re: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
Alistair Phillips wrote: Hi guys, I know that in the mailing list a while ago people were wondering why SoftUpdates were not enabled by default at install time on the / partition. Now I installed FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE into a 4GB slice. I did not create seperate bits for / or /usr and such - but

Re: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote: | Hi guys, | | So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install | time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know | 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space left. And | at times

RE: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread John Straiton
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote: | Hi guys, | | So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install | time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know | 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space left. And at

Re: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John Straiton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote: | Hi guys, | | So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install | time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know | 4GB is not much but it

Re: softupdates on /?

2002-10-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:40:34AM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: during the process of setting up some new servers I noticed that sysinstall will enable softupdates by default for everything BUT /. Is there any risk if I set / to use softupdates as well? The problem with softupdates is that a