From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 22 18:16:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:16:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27689 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:14:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00504; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:14:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199802230214.VAA00504@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: new 2.2.5 installation randomly (and constantly) panics In-Reply-To: <19980222205301.40431@math.vt.edu> from "matthew c. mead" at "Feb 22, 98 08:53:01 pm" To: mmead@calvin.math.vt.edu (matthew c. mead) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:14:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz, grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG matthew c. mead said: > > One of my users just informed me he can force an immediate panic by > writing a large file to ~ftp/pub/pcg (which is mounted to ~pcg/ftp_data > with mount -t null ~pcg/ftp_data ~ftp/pub/pcg). Is nullfs unstable? > In fact, I haven't crashed at all since I unmounted them, and it seems > there's always a number of ftp connections when the machine crashes. > I'm beginning to think this might be the problem. > Avoid the special filesystems (like NULLFS) like the plague. Don't even consider using them in a production system, and I certainly wouldn't... Someone needs to comment the LINT file that one should definitely stay away from them (unless the system is not mission critical.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message