Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 15:15:02 -0700 From: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>, jhb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locking a file backed mdconfig into memory Message-ID: <201005312215.o4VMF2Gc089418@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> In-Reply-To: <201005312124.o4VLO9vW082331@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> References: <201005272348.o4RNmgWh014243@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <20100528043006.GA18560@lava.net> <201005281757.o4SHvTwq020905@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <20100528191828.GA83371@icarus.home.lan> <201005281926.o4SJQCW3041849@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <20100528215837.GA86689@icarus.home.lan> <AANLkTikq8AJIlvIkWkGIaS6mlqWOAPreVY7ALs3AO98v@mail.gmail.com> <201005310242.o4V2glZX057087@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <20100531041843.GA66732@icarus.home.lan> <201005311825.o4VIPp5F051573@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <20100531184525.GA89545@icarus.home.lan> <201005312124.o4VLO9vW082331@hugeraid.jetcafe.org>
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Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> writes:
> Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> writes:
>> CC'ing jhb@ since he last updated PR kern/120127 (which I would say is
>> still a problem on RELENG_7 :-) ). John, are you aware of any gzip
>> decompression / mfsroot changes which might explain the problem on
>> RELENG_7? I haven't done a "thorough" series of tests, but on my
>> testbed boxes RELENG_8 works fine with a gzip'd mfsroot.
> I can get you an iso that crashes when you try to boot it, if that
> will help?
Well this doesn't seem to be the compression issue, since I just tried a
test without compressing the ramdisk image. It still crashes. I'm back
to thinking it's the size of the ramdisk image itself, but really I've
no clue.
--
Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org
>>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<<
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is."
-- Jan L. A. Van De Snepscheut
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