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Date:      Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:11:06 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r206129 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <4BB9006A.8080301@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100404210314.GH86236@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <201004030839.o338d0VV032828@svn.freebsd.org> <20100404210314.GH86236@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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on 05/04/2010 00:03 Peter Jeremy said the following:
> On 2010-Apr-03 08:39:00 +0000, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> Author: avg
>> Date: Sat Apr  3 08:39:00 2010
>> New Revision: 206129
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/206129
>>
>> Log:
>>  vn_stat: take into account va_blocksize when setting st_blksize
>>  
>>  As currently st_blksize is always PAGE_SIZE, it is playing safe to not
>>  use any smaller value.  For some cases this might not be optimal, but
>>  at least nothing should get broken.
> 
> I haven't verified it but, based on a quick look at the change, I
> suspect this will trigger the problem in bin/144446.  Quick summary:
> db(3) has restrictions on its internal bucket size but initializes it
> from st_blksize with no sanity checking and ZFS can report blocksizes
> outside the allowed bucket size range for db(3).
> 

Thank you for pointing this out.
If no one objects or provides a better patch, I will commit yours.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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