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. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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