From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 9 1:38:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dyson.iquest.net. (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6473B14BD6 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 01:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from toor@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA65843; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 03:38:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199906090838.DAA65843@dyson.iquest.net.> Subject: Re: problem for the VM gurus In-Reply-To: <199906072257.SAA22459@bbs.mpcs.com> from Howard Goldstein at "Jun 7, 1999 06:57:55 pm" To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com (Howard Goldstein) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 03:38:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howard Goldstein said: > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:38:51 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman 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