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From: Dave Swegen <dswegen@allstor-sw.co.uk>
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Subject: i386/31982: Creating a FIFO on ext2 causes kernel explosion
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>Number:         31982
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Creating a FIFO on ext2 causes kernel explosion
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 14 07:50:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dave Swegen
>Release:        4.1
>Organization:
Allstor Software Ltd
>Environment:
Various celerons running on a half-sized mobo, unknown manufacturer. Intel 440BX chipset.
>Description:
A while back we were evaluating using ext2 in conjunction with FreeBSD 4.1 for one of our products. However we came across a pretty bad problem, in that the kernel died (no panic messages as I recall). The cause seemed to be when a fifo was created on an ext2 fs.
>How-To-Repeat:
Haven't looked at it for a while, but AFAIK it should be enough to do a mkfifo on an ext2 partition. We discovered it when we were restoring a backup from tape.
>Fix:

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