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Date:      Mon, 31 May 2010 15:15:02 -0700
From:      Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>, jhb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Locking a file backed mdconfig into memory 
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Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> writes:
> Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> writes:
>> CC'ing jhb@ since he last updated PR kern/120127 (which I would say is
>> still a problem on RELENG_7 :-) ).  John, are you aware of any gzip
>> decompression / mfsroot changes which might explain the problem on
>> RELENG_7?  I haven't done a "thorough" series of tests, but on my
>> testbed boxes RELENG_8 works fine with a gzip'd mfsroot.
> I can get you an iso that crashes when you try to boot it, if that
> will help? 

Well this doesn't seem to be the compression issue, since I just tried a
test without compressing the ramdisk image. It still crashes. I'm back
to thinking it's the size of the ramdisk image itself, but really I've
no clue. 
-- 
Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org 
>>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<<

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
 In practice, there is."
                                 -- Jan L. A. Van De Snepscheut





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