Re: Weird comportment when deleting files

[Jonas Trollvik <jontro@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've seen this in FreeBSD too, though sometimes I've had to wait for
10 mins until it's updated

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:39:43 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:40:20PM +0200, Romain Ramanantsiarovana wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > when trying to delete files, it seems that it's not take in account
> > immediatly by the system. Here is the result when I execute 'df -k' :
> 
> Like Simon said, this is the effect of softupdates. It delays updates
> e.g. of the free-bitmap for a certain amount of time. The free-space
> should be corrected in the next 30 seconds after the delete.
> 
> Joerg
>