On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:42:34PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> I've tracked this down to sys/miscfs/genfs/genfs_vnops.c rev 1.35:
> 
> 	revision 1.35
> 	date: 2001/06/14 08:22:14;  author: chs;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -11
> 	be sure to allocate dirty zeroed pages to cover blocks we allocate
> 	to resolve a write fault.  fixes PR 13201.
> 	also, be sure to allocate blocks for write faults to holes even if
> 	the page is already in memory.  fixes PR 13189.
> 
> Any ideas Chuck?

I don't know what the problem is yet, but I've reproduced the problem
and confirmed that undoing that change fixes it.  I'll look into this
more today.


> I wonder if this is in anyway related to the probles Nate Williams is
> seeing in kern/13361 (ld to large file)?

seems likely, yea.

-Chuck