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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 1997 22:03:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Arjan de Vet <Arjan.deVet@adv.IAEhv.nl>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Urge to apply the vn device hack even to 2.2.5
Message-ID:  <199710202003.WAA06920@adv.IAEhv.nl>
In-Reply-To: <13791.877372893@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <199710201615.KAA29216@rocky.mt.sri.com>

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In article <13791.877372893@time.cdrom.com> you write:

>> My advice is to 'just do it'.  I suspect Jordan must have the patch on
>> his build box in order for him to roll the release, and since there are
>> few hours left to do it in, it should be done ASAP.
>
>I don't, that's the weird thing.  I'm running a standard 2.2-stable
>kernel here.  Maybe it only hits in situations where you have a
>certain amount of RAM?

I've done a 'make release' for 2.2-stable at least 5 times last week and I
haven't seen the vn panics either (with 64MB of RAM). Only some ioctl
message, see below.

Arjan

[...]
Compressing doc files...
sh -e /usr/src/release/doFS.sh /R/stage /mnt 1440 /R/stage/mfsfd  8000 minimum
ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device
Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 8.
/dev/rvn0c:	2880 sectors in 1 cylinders of 1 tracks, 2880 sectors
	1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (8 c/g, 11.25MB/g, 1312 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32,
2287 blocks
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/vn0c        1247     1159       88    93%     190    1120    15%   /mnt
/dev/rvn0c: clean, 176 free (8 frags, 21 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation)
>>> Filesystem is 1440 K, 88 left
>>>     8000 bytes/inode, 1120 left
>>>   184
mv fs-image fs-image.std
mv fs-image.size fs-image.std.size
[...]
kzip data   end   address will be: 0x39ff28
sh -e /usr/src/release/doFS.sh /R/stage /mnt 1440 /R/stage/boot.std  100000 fd1440
ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device
Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 9.
/dev/rvn0c:	2880 sectors in 1 cylinders of 1 tracks, 2880 sectors
	1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (9 c/g, 12.66MB/g, 128 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32,
2397 blocks
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/vn0c        1395     1206      189    86%       5     121     4%   /mnt
/dev/rvn0c: clean, 379 free (11 frags, 46 blocks, 0.4% fragmentation)
mv fs-image /R/stage/floppies/bootstd.flp
mv /R/stage/floppies/bootstd.flp /R/stage/floppies/boot.flp
Regular boot floppy made.
touch release.8



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