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"refreshing" the label on the vnode before use, just get the label right from inception. For single-label file systems, set the label in the generic VFS getnewvnode() code; for multi-label file systems, leave the labeling up to the file system. With UFS1/2, this means reading the extended attribute during vfs_vget() as the inode is pulled off disk, rather than hitting the extended attributes frequently during operations later, improving performance. This also corrects sematics for shared vnode locks, which were not previously present in the system. This chances the cache coherrency properties WRT out-of-band access to label data, but in an acceptable form. With UFS1, there is a small race condition during automatic extended attribute start -- this is not present with UFS2, and occurs because EAs aren't available at vnode inception. We'll introduce a work around for this shortly. Approved by: re Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories |
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| ffs_softdep_stub.c | ||
| ffs_softdep.c | ||
| ffs_subr.c | ||
| ffs_tables.c | ||
| ffs_vfsops.c | ||
| ffs_vnops.c | ||
| fs.h | ||
| README.snapshot | ||
| README.softupdates | ||
| softdep.h | ||
$FreeBSD$ Using Soft Updates To enable the soft updates feature in your kernel, add option SOFTUPDATES to your kernel configuration. Once you are running a kernel with soft update support, you need to enable it for whichever filesystems you wish to run with the soft update policy. This is done with the -n option to tunefs(8) on the UNMOUNTED filesystems, e.g. from single-user mode you'd do something like: tunefs -n enable /usr To permanently enable soft updates on the /usr filesystem (or at least until a corresponding ``tunefs -n disable'' is done). Soft Updates Copyright Restrictions As of June 2000 the restrictive copyright has been removed and replaced with a `Berkeley-style' copyright. The files implementing soft updates now reside in the sys/ufs/ffs directory and are compiled into the generic kernel by default. Soft Updates Status The soft updates code has been running in production on many systems for the past two years generally quite successfully. The two current sets of shortcomings are: 1) On filesystems that are chronically full, the two minute lag from the time a file is deleted until its free space shows up will result in premature filesystem full failures. This failure mode is most evident in small filesystems such as the root. For this reason, use of soft updates is not recommended on the root filesystem. 2) If your system routines runs parallel processes each of which remove many files, the kernel memory rate limiting code may not be able to slow removal operations to a level sustainable by the disk subsystem. The result is that the kernel runs out of memory and hangs. Both of these problems are being addressed, but have not yet been resolved. There are no other known problems at this time. How Soft Updates Work For more general information on soft updates, please see: http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/ http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ -- Marshall Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> July 2000