Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:20:13 GMT From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/87255: Large malloc-backed mfs crashes the system Message-ID: <200510260820.j9Q8KD3w067765@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/87255; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/87255: Large malloc-backed mfs crashes the system Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:55:09 +0200 In message <200510111450.j9BEoLEB006718@freefall.freebsd.org>, Yar Tikhiy write s: >The following reply was made to PR kern/87255; it has been noted by GNATS. > >From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> >To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org >Cc: >Subject: Re: kern/87255: Large malloc-backed mfs crashes the system >Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:44:36 +0400 > > Just for the record: > > The problem seems to involve vfs-md interaction > as filling just a bogusly large malloc-backed md > device results in harmless ENOSPC at some point. ENOSPC may be a problem for filesystems, try changing it to EIO and see if they cope better with that. In all cases it is a "don't do that then" class of problem. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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