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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: kern/1120: system panics after editing a disklabel
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The following reply was made to PR kern/1120; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, aagero@aage.priv.no
Cc:  Subject: Re: kern/1120: system panics after editing a disklabel
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 17:27:58 +1000

 >The one thing I dont quite understand is the page fault-panic in frame 1.
 >Why another panic?
 
 The buffer containing the label is screwed up and syncing it causes more
 problems.  Perhaps sync() shouldn't be attempted when the original panic
 was in disk-related code.
 
 Bruce