From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Sep 21 4:41:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C257037B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id NAA56578; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:41:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA38115; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:41:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:41:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how mmap buffer writes handled? In-Reply-To: <200009200807.BAA27583@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Agree. Might there not be some cleaner way of resolving the F00F bug ? > > ISTR having looked into this some time back. > Yeah, there's actually a great fix: replace the faulty chip. Software, I mean. Personally, I use the K6 chip instead. > But you did say "[...]when accessing the page for write". You > can't access a non-existant page, only an existant one. 8-). I was speaking from a program's point of view. The program does not know the page is not present. To get the system's point of view, you would amend this to "attempting to access". Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message