Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:14:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mmead@calvin.math.vt.edu (matthew c. mead) Cc: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz, grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new 2.2.5 installation randomly (and constantly) panics Message-ID: <199802230214.VAA00504@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980222205301.40431@math.vt.edu> from "matthew c. mead" at "Feb 22, 98 08:53:01 pm"
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matthew c. mead said: > > One of my users just informed me he can force an immediate panic by > writing a large file to ~ftp/pub/pcg (which is mounted to ~pcg/ftp_data > with mount -t null ~pcg/ftp_data ~ftp/pub/pcg). Is nullfs unstable? > In fact, I haven't crashed at all since I unmounted them, and it seems > there's always a number of ftp connections when the machine crashes. > I'm beginning to think this might be the problem. > Avoid the special filesystems (like NULLFS) like the plague. Don't even consider using them in a production system, and I certainly wouldn't... Someone needs to comment the LINT file that one should definitely stay away from them (unless the system is not mission critical.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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