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cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: File system deadlock. GBDE(4) and/or MD(4) related.
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030724135707.GW43543@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ
> es:
> 
> 
>>	# touch /mnt/test.file
> 
> 
> You are probably missing:
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/null of=/mnt/test.file bs=1m count=512
> 
> 
>>	# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /mnt/test.file -s 512M -u 1
> 
> 
> What you have found has nothing to do with GBDE, I think it is the
> usual "vnode backed md(4)" deadlock.
> 


I wrote a howto that is somewhat similare to the desired steps in case 
anybody is interested in another way:
http://www.ezunix.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=67&page=1

I've used gbde extensivly and have doubts about any issues. However, 
maybe some sanity checks in gbde would catch the problem?

<shrugs>
-Jon