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Date:      Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:53:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/ntfs ntfs_subr.c
Message-ID:  <20030621135233.X581@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030621193510.A58194@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
References:  <200306201452.h5KEqqh3054891@repoman.freebsd.org>    <20030621193510.A58194@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Tim J. Robbins wrote:

> NetBSD's buffer cache definitely cannot handle requests for the same blkno
> with different sizes. jdolecek added that code to avoid requesting different
> sized buffers because NetBSD panics when it detects such a request; FreeBSD
> tries to handle the request correctly, but does a pretty bad job of it and
> issues the bogus write requests I mentioned in the commit message.

Maybe you should make it a panic here too then.

Er, well, a very annoying printf at least.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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