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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 01:38:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Cc:        rb@gid.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: "vm_fault: fault on nofault entry" with softupdates
Message-ID:  <199803300638.BAA09465@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803300400.UAA05599@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Mar 29, 98 08:00:42 pm"

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> This is an old soft update panic . Try John's latest check in:
> 
> dyson       1998/03/29 10:23:45 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             vfs_syscalls.c 
>   Log:
>   Correct a significant problem with the softupdates port.  Allow fsync
>   to work properly within the softupdates framework, and thereby eliminate
>   some unfortunate panics.
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.96      +11 -4     src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c
> 
> --------
> 
> Hope that my testing goes well over here . Usually, I can crash the system
> within an hour if I enable soft updates.
> 

PS.
	I didn't fix anything other than add more facets to the port of the
	code.  Now, the system seems as reliable as it was before the vtruncbuf
	change, but there is absolutely no reason other than fsync not working
	why the addition of vtruncbuf caused problems.

John

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