From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 17 10:05:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09040 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09025; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:04:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20112; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:03:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803171803.NAA20112@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: WARNING WILL ROBINSON! Risk of severe filesystem damage suspected In-Reply-To: from Julian Elischer at "Mar 17, 98 09:14:22 am" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:03:25 -0500 (EST) Cc: mantar@netcom.com, michaelh@cet.co.jp, karl@mcs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer said: > > I've been testing soft-updates and was seeing some new crashes I hadn't > seen in the last few days. I was just trying to work out if it was > soft-updates or the new VM stuff.. > I think that it is an unintended interaction with the new vtruncbuf, or perhaps an error in vfs_bio, whereby I am not gratuitiously writing out buffers that are wrongly sized. (That can have very evil effects, but we have gotten by with it in the past.) It is unlikely that it is not a problem with my VFS changes. However, there have been some formatting changes in vfs_cluster, which the additional whitespace could be causing problems :-). -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message