Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:30:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs hangs my system? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970518002913.21528Y-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca> In-Reply-To: <199705180047.TAA01353@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Sat, 17 May 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:
>
> The hang associated with doing lots of I/O through a layer like CCD
> is likely a deadlock indirectly associated with the vfs_bio code.
Since mount points are done on the block device as well, wouldn't
doing dd's to such a filesystem exercise the bug as well? What's
special about newfs, as far as the driver is concerned?
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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