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From: Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org>
To: Eirik Oeverby <ltning@anduin.net>
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Subject: Re: nullfs in 4.10
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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:05:07PM +0200, Eirik Oeverby wrote:
> Since upgrading to 4.10-ish (cvsup), nullfs (mount_null) causes my 
> jailing host to panic and reboot very frequently. I've been using nullfs 
> for about a year now, up until and including 4.9 and beyond, and I have 
> never had problems with it. It has been heavily used, among other things 
> to mount the host ports tree into all jails (10+), etc.
> 
> Anyone got any idea what's happening? Someone mentioned on -CURRENT that 
> nullfs has been the victim of some pretty hefty bitrot lately, so 
> perhaps that's the reason? In any case - in its current form it does not 
> belong anywhere near a -STABLE release.

Did you look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/63662 and
the patch that it mentions,
http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/nullfs-4.diff?

Cheers,

-- 
Anders.