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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:44:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
To:        ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers, ponds!lakes.water.net!rivers, ponds!lambert.org!terry
Subject:   Re: 2.2-GAMMA (3/10/97) and the "dup alloc" problem.
Message-ID:  <199703120244.VAA24869@lakes.water.net>

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Just to follow-up on my own mail...

> 
> > 
> > > Just to report in on the question of "does the latest
> > > 2.2-GAMMA (3/10/97) exhibit the 'dup alloc' problem".
> > > 
> > > I have just tried out the boot floppies that were made this 
> > > morning; the problem still exists.
> > 
> > Have you tried disabling the directory name cache in kern/vfs_cache.c yet?
> > 
> > 
> > 					Regards,
> > 					Terry Lambert
> > 					terry@lambert.org
> 
>  Hmm.. nope; I've been persuing missing splbio()s and what-not; [not
> too successfully I might add.]
> 
>  What makes you consider this a possibility - just for my own edification.
> I wouldn't have thought that came into play on a newfs'd file system...
> Are you suggesting the cache lookup is returning the wrong vnode somewhere?
> 
>  And, apparently this can all be disable (in the 2.1.6.1 sources)
> by setting "doingcache" to 0.. is that what you're thinking of?
> 
> 	- Dave Rivers -

  I set "doingcache" to 0 in vfs_cache.c; and reran the test (again,
this is 2.1.6.1).

  Unfortunately, the test still fails - that is, the error is still
manifest.

	- Dave Rivers -




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