From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 17 10:07:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09815 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:07:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09791; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:07:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karl@Mars.mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (karl@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA27515; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:06:30 -0600 (CST) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Mars.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) id MAA28734; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:06:29 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19980317120629.16696@mcs.net> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:06:29 -0600 From: Karl Denninger To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Julian Elischer , mantar@netcom.com, michaelh@cet.co.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING WILL ROBINSON! Risk of severe filesystem damage suspected References: <199803171803.NAA20112@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199803171803.NAA20112@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:03:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:03:25PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > 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. How DARE you say that whitespace isn't important! For that you deserve to be forced to read the obfuscated C-code contest entries. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message