Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 19:47:04 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: taob@nbc.netcom.ca (Brian Tao) Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs hangs my system? Message-ID: <199705180047.TAA01353@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970517182448.21528R-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca> from Brian Tao at "May 17, 97 06:27:42 pm"
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> On Mon, 12 May 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote: > > > > And I've figured out my problem. I was doing > > > > newfs [options] /dev/ccd0c > > > > And I shoulda been doing > > > > newfs [options] /dev/rccd0c > > I reported this problem in freebsd-stable (search the archives for > the subject "System freezes with 2.2-970420") on April 28, and a few > others have confirmed the problem. Justin said he was going to > investigate with some drives he had, but I haven't heard anything else > about it recently. > The hang associated with doing lots of I/O through a layer like CCD is likely a deadlock indirectly associated with the vfs_bio code. John
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