kern/45558: [msdosfs] mdconfig and msdosfs make fs writes hang

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:50:31AM +0000, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/45558; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, niklasjs at ifi.uio.no
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: kern/45558: [msdosfs] mdconfig and msdosfs make fs writes hang
> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:48:41 +0900 (JST)
> 
>  Good news:
>  
>  It looks like mdconfig now works correctly on msdos partitions.
>  I built a 1G file on a 32-bit fat partition, and mounted it as ffs
>  with mdconfig, and it has been working nicely for a while, with a lot
>  of activity.
>  
>  I'm however a bit surprised by the slow writes, considering I'm using
>  soft updates on the partition. Something in the intereaction with
>  msdosfs?

msdosfs is not known as a high-performance filesystem ;-)

Kris
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