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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 14:50:32 -0500
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Explosion update on Softupdates - it is NOT CCD related
Message-ID:  <19980521145032.65465@mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <35646833.52BFA1D7@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:45:24AM -0700
References:  <19980519172915.55147@mcs.net> <35646833.52BFA1D7@whistle.com>

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On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:45:24AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Karl Denninger wrote:
> > 
> > The earlier panic I reported (including traceback) is not related to ccd.
> > 
> > I just got another one on the Diablo machine.  This is EXTREMELY
> > reproducable in that environment; I can kill the system within 10 minutes,
> > and this time when it came back up the filesystem had serious damage.
> > 
> > Note that if I turn off softupdates on the SPOOL disk (leaving it on for all
> > other drives, except root) it DOES NOT panic.
> > 
> > This has to be related to the I/O pattern in that application.
> > 
> > --
> >
> what (exactly is going on on that disk?
> is there mmapping happenning?
> etc. etc.
> 
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Diablo uses mmap to read, and write to do writes to the spool files.  
It also does a hell of a lot of flock()ing.

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