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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:10:11 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lockmgr panic
Message-ID:  <19971016201011.KQ06713@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971016000913.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>; from Simon Shapiro on Oct 16, 1997 00:09:13 -0700
References:  <199710160509.PAA08005@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <XFMail.971016000913.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>

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As Simon Shapiro wrote:

> >  I think it substitutes panics with deadlock possibilities.  Perhaps
> >  the deadlocks are rare.
> 
> Nope.  Easy to do.  Sometimes during boot.

Huh?  Are you in a different movie, Simon?

I was talking about Mr. KATO's fix for the recursive lock in the vn(4)
device.  His fix was only applied to /sys/dev/vn.c, so unless you are
booting off a vn disk :-), i can't see where this is applicable to
your description.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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