Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

["Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>]

From: Thierry Deval <TDeval@PrimeOBJ.COM>
> Hello,
>
> I recompiled my kernel to use the newest raidframe, and enabled softdep on
one
> of my raid partitions.
> After thorough testings, I must say it looks rock solid.
> Impressive, knowing the problems occuring with the previous rf+softdep
> combination.

Excellent news - I had spontanious reboot when testing RAIDframe over svnd
devices plus softdep - but then I should maybe not be suprised...

> For safety, I'll run rf+softdep on only one partition for some days. But
I'm
> pretty confident I may use it on the whole disk ;-)

Good idea. I like being paranoid about data on disk. Like this piece of sh*t
windows box I just reinstalled.

> OTOH, I wonder how long is the softdep update queue ?
> After having finished a ~180MB dir copy (pax /usr/obj), I could still see
drive
> activity for 20 sec. And after that, there was still some intermittent
update up
> to 1 min later...???

This is for someone who knows more about soft updates to answer.

PS Apologies for OE5 again - reinstalling the games machine. Might not be
setup quite right.

Peter