From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 21 13:55:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA26674 for current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 13:55:30 -0800 Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA26666 ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 13:55:25 -0800 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id QAA04647; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:55:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.6.4) id QAA16534; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:55:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:55:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu To: John Dyson cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getblk hangs In-Reply-To: <199511211419.GAA23343@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, John Dyson wrote: > > I have been studying the code carefully, DG and I agree that the "ASYNC" > changes should have no apparent bearing on these problems in current. > Please make sure that you know whether any filesystems have been mounted > async since the last reboot. I have some *much* more aggressive async > code that had caused no problems for about 1 week -- it is likely > that there have been some bugs lurking elsewhere for a while. > > There have been problems in the clustering code and a minor spl problem > in the vfs_bio code. Also, any use of the ext2fs would almost certainly be > fatal (eventually) until this last weekends modification. If you have > had these hangs (neither DG nor I have had any problems, but he and > I only use UFS, NFS (dg only) , and CD9660 occasionally), please try the code > again. If you find any getblk hangs -- let me know, and I'll supply a patch > that can derive more information from the situation. I absolutely have _never_ mounted a FS async, and I've had two hangs. I have two machines, they're fairly alike, except one has extra serial ports (8 in a irq sharing card) and has seen a lot of ppp/route commands, and that one has seen both of the hangs. Other one has had no problems. > > John > dyson@freebsd.org > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: