Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 03:38:13 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com (Howard Goldstein) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem for the VM gurus Message-ID: <199906090838.DAA65843@dyson.iquest.net.> In-Reply-To: <199906072257.SAA22459@bbs.mpcs.com> from Howard Goldstein at "Jun 7, 1999 06:57:55 pm"
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Howard Goldstein said: > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:38:51 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> wrote: > : On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > ... what version of the operating system? > : 4.0-CURRENT > > 3.2R too... > I just checked the source (CVS) tree, and something bad happend between 1.27 and 1.29 on ufs_readwrite.c. Unless other things had been changed to make the problem go away, the recursive vnode thing was broken then. I am surprised that was changed that long ago. (The breakage is an example of someone making a change, and not either understanding why the code was there, or forgetting to put the alternative into the code.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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