From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 8 16:34: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7807537B401; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from lysimachus.hosting.swbell.net (lysimachus.hosting.swbell.net [216.100.98.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B3543EA9; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alc@imimic.com) Received: from imimic.com (adsl-216-63-78-19.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [216.63.78.19]) by lysimachus.hosting.swbell.net id TAA15101; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:33:56 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <3DF3E4F3.27D65FB@imimic.com> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 18:33:55 -0600 From: "Alan L. Cox" Organization: iMimic Networking, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: smkelly@zombie.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repeatable panic from nautilus2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Alan L. Cox wrote: > > > Please remove ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT from your kernel configuration. This > > code has never been safe for general use. > > > > Unfortunately, when it was documented in NOTES, this was fact was > > omitted. > > Is the attached diff appropriate, then? Yes, it is. I was just composing an e-mail to re@ about this. Thanks! > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories > > Index: NOTES > =================================================================== > RCS file: /data/fbsd-cvs/ncvs/src/sys/conf/NOTES,v > retrieving revision 1.1117 > diff -u -r1.1117 NOTES > --- NOTES 26 Nov 2002 17:32:39 -0000 1.1117 > +++ NOTES 9 Dec 2002 00:29:06 -0000 > @@ -737,6 +737,9 @@ > # > # Enabling this will probably not give an overall speedup except for > # special workloads. > +# > +# WARNING: Do not enable this, it is known to be broken, and will result > +# in system instability, as well as possible data loss. > options ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT > > # Cryptographically secure random number generator; /dev/[u]random To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message