Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:06:04 +0100 From: Timo Geusch <freebsd@unix-consult.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIONFS Message-ID: <20000405080604.A255@odie.unix-consult.com> In-Reply-To: <20000404220530.B53939@ewok.creative.net.au>; from adrian@freebsd.org on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:05:32PM %2B0800 References: <20000404074034.A290@odie.unix-consult.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004040211310.3724-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000404220530.B53939@ewok.creative.net.au>
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:05:32PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Timo Geusch wrote: > > > > > Here be dragons, I know :-). Got myself a nice juicy & reproducable > > > crash here, so I thought I might as well try to track down this > > > problem. But before I start,is anyone else working on this one? I'd > > > hate to waste my not exactly ample time trying to duplicate somebody > > > else's work. > > > > Frankly, unless you have the time to fix unionfs completely I wouldn't > > bother. We know it's broken, whats needed is someone with a good handle on > > the VFS code to sit down and spend a week or so to fix it. On the other > > hand, if that's you then go for it (you'd certainly learn a lot of useful > > things in the process) > > > > I'm starting VFS hacking again :) Throw up a PR, I'll assign it to myself > and I'll look at it for you. Thanks, I was looking at the crash dump and at the source code and frankly, it does my head in. I'll file a PR tonight; crashdump etc are available on request/for download. Now what I need is some docs that give me a halfway decent understanding on how UNIONFS works so I can do some debugging myself. The 4.4BSD book is a bit curt on it... Timo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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