From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 19:20:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA08803 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA08783 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA20940; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:20:07 -0500 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:20 EST Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07025; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:29:32 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.8.3/8.6.9) id VAA24747; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:35:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:35:34 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199703120235.VAA24747@lakes.water.net> 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. Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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 -