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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 07:35:25 -0400 
From:      Troy Arie Cobb <tcobb@staff.circle.net>
To:        "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: FATAL FS Mount bug in -STABLE and -RELEASE
Message-ID:  <AE4A7B7EB10DD4118CBD0050DA196F4F0BE23C@FRIGGA>

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More information:  this problem does NOT occur on the latest 3.4-STABLE
release.

>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Troy Arie Cobb [mailto:tcobb@staff.circle.net]
>   Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 1:10 PM
>
>   I've found a fatal filesystem mount bug in both 4.0-STABLE 
>   and 4.0-RELEASE,
>   tested on the 20000604 snapshot of 4.0.
>   
>   With both the GENERIC kernel and a custom kernel, the system hangs
>   tight when more than about 256 filesystems are mounted.  I've
>   tested this with loopback NFS mounts, remote NFS mounts,
>   and local NULL mounts.  The machine freezes, responds to pings and
>   changing of virtual console, but accepts no input.  No 
>   errors are written to
>   /var/log or console. A hard reset is the only way out, CTRL-ALT-DEL
>   doesn't work.  
>   
>   Please tell me what other info we can provide.  This should 
>   be easy to
>   reproduce, though I'd be happy to give anyone the perl 
>   scripts we use
>   to tickle the bug.
   


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