Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:55:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: John Dyson <dyson@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getblk hangs Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951121165146.16063C-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199511211419.GAA23343@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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