From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 9 4:26:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8D615401 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 04:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA28435; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 07:26:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 07:26:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: Howard Goldstein , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem for the VM gurus In-Reply-To: <199906090838.DAA65843@dyson.iquest.net.> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, John S. Dyson wrote: > 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.) Is that the limit to Bruce's fu*kup, or did he break it elsewhere, too? It'd be nice to get this reversed since it's been found. And FWIW, semenu seems to be the only one to have anything to handle IN_RECURSE, probably because his NTFS code was recently committed and not mangled. > > -- > 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 > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message