Re: PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates
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Msg-id 20040329223804.Y51637@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates
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what version of FreeBSD are you using?  I'm running 4.9-STABLE with
softupdates on my db file system ...

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Does anyone else have this problem?
>
> We have softupdates turned on on our data dir.  (Soon to be turned off
> due to these issues).
>
> The partition is 12GB.  'df' says that we're using 12 and a bit GB but
> 'du' says we're using 2GB (which we really are).
>
> It seems that perhaps softupdates is caching some stuff, or preventing
> something from being written properly, etc.
>
> The funny thing is that this was never a problem until we upgraded to
> 7.4.  Has something changed in the way file writes or syncs are done?
>
> Chris
>
>
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