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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:00:17 -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:  <AE4A7B7EB10DD4118CBD0050DA196F4F0BE25F@FRIGGA>

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I'm a bit surprised that after two days no one has said anything about
this fatal bug.  Am I submitting this incorrectly?  

- Troy

>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Troy Arie Cobb [mailto:tcobb@staff.circle.net]
>   Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:35 AM
>   To: 'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'
>   Subject: RE: FATAL FS Mount bug in -STABLE and -RELEASE
>   
>   
>   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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