Subject: Re: kern/33406: softdeps get stuck in endless loop
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/08/2006 02:15:03
The following reply was made to PR kern/33406; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/33406: softdeps get stuck in endless loop 
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 12:11:39 +1000

 YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 
 > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > > 
 > >         The easiest way I've found to reproduce the problem is to use
 > >         the following recipe.  Sometimes more than one invocation of
 > >         lat_fs may be needed.
 > > 
 > >         newfs -I -i 524288 /dev/rwd0d
 > >         mount -o softdep -t ffs /dev/wd0d /mnt
 > > 	cd /mnt
 > > 	.../lmbench/bin/.../lat_fs
 > 
 > your /dev is not ffs?
 
 Correct.  / and /home are nfs mounts, and /mnt is the only local
 (ffs) filesystem.
 
 Cheers,
 Simon.
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