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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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