Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:18:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> To: green@zone.baldcom.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: bright@hotjobs.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, joelh@gnu.org Subject: Re: vn subsystem Message-ID: <199807231418.KAA16043@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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> Alright, it's unstable for large files. observe the following scenario and
> appropriate coredump:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 green green 528482304 Jul 22 23:11 /home/green/msdos.drv
> vnconfig -c -s io -s labels /dev/vn0 /home/green/msdos.drv
^^^^^^
Is there something missing here? Since the option labels is set, should
you do a fdisk before newfs? If you don't, vn driver will try to use dosfs
boot sector as an MBR, and funny things could happen.
> newfs_msdos /dev/vn0
> mount /dev/vn0 /msdos (oops, should this matter anyway?)
> mount_msdos /dev/vn0 /msdos
> *crash*
-lq
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