Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:29:41 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com> Cc: smkelly@zombie.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repeatable panic from nautilus2 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021208192747.60422A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3DF3DD6D.BA8B8C37@imimic.com>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Alan L. Cox wrote: > Please remove ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT from your kernel configuration. This > code has never been safe for general use. > > Unfortunately, when it was documented in NOTES, this was fact was > omitted. Is the attached diff appropriate, then? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories Index: NOTES =================================================================== RCS file: /data/fbsd-cvs/ncvs/src/sys/conf/NOTES,v retrieving revision 1.1117 diff -u -r1.1117 NOTES --- NOTES 26 Nov 2002 17:32:39 -0000 1.1117 +++ NOTES 9 Dec 2002 00:29:06 -0000 @@ -737,6 +737,9 @@ # # Enabling this will probably not give an overall speedup except for # special workloads. +# +# WARNING: Do not enable this, it is known to be broken, and will result +# in system instability, as well as possible data loss. options ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT # Cryptographically secure random number generator; /dev/[u]random To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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