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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:19:43 -0700
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
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Softupdates on -stable currently has a bug when handling large files
that will cause your machine to panic.  I have filed kern/66781 which
describes this problem.  The best work around that I can recommend is
to disable softupdates on any and all FS's.

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