From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 15:33:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BCB16A4DD for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:33:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F60C43D64 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:33:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.201] ([192.168.254.201]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6DFXKon068636; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:33:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <44B667C0.9010501@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:33:20 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Barros References: <200607111451.22749.john@baldwin.cx> <70e8236f0607130819h155c8a46yc38eacb39378e30c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0607130819h155c8a46yc38eacb39378e30c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: John Baldwin , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] amr(4) testers needed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:33:38 -0000 Joao Barros wrote: > On 7/11/06, John Baldwin wrote: > >> I have a patch for amr(4) that is a forward-port of a Scott Long patch >> for 4.x >> that fixes some severe data corruption with amr(4) + PAE on 4.x with > >> 4GB of >> RAM. I need the patch tested on current though so I can get it into >> HEAD and >> eventually into 4.x. The patch for head is at >> http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/amr_head.patch It shouldn't break >> anything and should basically be a nop. I think the patch will apply >> to 6.x >> (and possibly 5.x) as well. Thanks! >> > > I can test it on i386 without PAE. Is that test enough? > Note that this problem is only present when you're using a management app at the same time as heavy disk activity is going on. If you're not using a management app (and few people are, the lack of apps is why I didn't catch this in the first place), then you're completely safe. John's email might be taken as a little alarmist in this respect. Scott