Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:19:34 +0000 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Tice <ptice@aldridge.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: UFS/VFS lock order reversal on stock 8.0-200812-AMD64 Message-ID: <1232713174.89022.8.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1232712477.89022.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <E8FEAE26C87DED4EB49EFF99D1C7A51DFF6927@ald-mail02.corporate.aldridge.com> <1232712477.89022.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:07 +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:33 -0600, Paul Tice wrote: > > I'm new, so please advise me (gently?) about list protocol and such if needed. > > > > Using stock 8.0-CURRENT-200812-amd64, I am getting the messages below. > > 8.0-CURRENT is essentially the bleeding-edge of FreeBSD, and is where > development happens that has not necessarily proven itself as being > stable. As it is the development branch, it also has a lot of extra > debugging enabled, which is what you are seeing with the "lock order > reversals". > > If you are not running 8-CURRENT for a specific reason (e.g. because you > are doing FreeBSD OS development work, or you are prepared to help debug > issues as you encounter them, or similar), you probably shouldn't be > running CURRENT. Stick with 7.1. I should have also included (in answer to your actual question): Neither the lock order reversals or the corrupted messages on shutdown are anything you need worry about. Gavin
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