From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Apr 8 08:33:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21706 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:33:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateman.zeus.leitch.com (gateman.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21578; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from woods@tap.zeus.leitch.com) Received: from zeus.leitch.com (tap.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.10]) by gateman.zeus.leitch.com (8.8.5/8.7.3/1.0) with ESMTP id LAA23718; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:32:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brain.zeus.leitch.com (brain.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.32]) by zeus.leitch.com (8.7.5/8.7.3/1.0) with ESMTP id LAA16886; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:32:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from woods@localhost) by brain.zeus.leitch.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25182; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:32:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from woods@tap.zeus.leitch.com) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:32:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199804081532.LAA25182@brain.zeus.leitch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: FreeBSD-gnats@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/6242: vnode disk driver too unstable in -STABLE to "make release" In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of "Wed, April 8, 1998 23:18:19 +1000" regarding "Re: kern/6242: vnode disk driver too unstable in -STABLE to "make release"" id <199804081318.XAA24407@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199804081318.XAA24407@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.45 under Emacs 20.2.1 Reply-To: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) Organization: Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ On Wed, April 8, 1998 at 23:18:19 (+1000), Bruce Evans wrote: ] > Subject: Re: kern/6242: vnode disk driver too unstable in -STABLE to "make release" > > >Ah ha. It seems for some reason that the fixit floppy stuff has grown > >too large to fit on a floppy, at least in my local build environment. > > The newfs options could be optimised for space a bit more. I'll try that! Thanks! > FIlling up the file system on a vn device seems to be harmless in > -current. However, `vnconfig -u' before umount is permitted and gives > the bizarre mountpoint properties mentioned in the PR. Ah ha! > doFS.sh is executed by `sh -e', so when the file system fills up, the > build aborts without either unmounting or `vnconfig -u'ing the device. > It is then easy to forget to unmount the device before unconfiguring > it. Except I don't run "vnconfig -u" either. Perhaps it unconfigures itself when it encounters this ``fatal'' error of being filled up? At least now I think I know how to resurrect the running system without needing a reboot.... -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP Planix, Inc. ; Secrets of the Weird To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message