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Date:      Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:11:16 -0600
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To:        Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: John's latest round of changes
Message-ID:  <19980321171116.21165@mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803212152.NAA00417@mordred.cs.ucla.edu>; from Scott Michel on Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 01:52:43PM -0800
References:  <199803212152.NAA00417@mordred.cs.ucla.edu>

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One other thing - it appears that the CAM patches with John's fixes are
SERIOUSLY unstable.  Without CAM John's latest commits appear to fix the
stability and disk corruption problems.

With CAM the corruption doesn't happen, but stability is in the toilet.

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On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 01:52:43PM -0800, Scott Michel wrote:
> I've been running a CVSup'd kernel from yesterday, relatively trouble
> free. I'd concur with John: it seems OK for the moment, but be prepared
> to back out at a moment's notice.
> 
> Do not use soft updates. That's still pretty unstable (although I've
> yet to get a decent panic and traceback -- machine spontaneously
> reboots under load.)
> 
> Also, I did manage to get through a 'make world' w/minimal problems
> last night, and my disks (I'm a WD wanker too!) pass fsck checks.
> 
> I'm going to try to track down the problems I've encountered, but
> since the kernel doesn't panic, these are notoriously NP hard to
> locate.
> 
> 
> -scooter
> 
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