Re: kern/34461 (multiple problems; lfs-related)

[Bert Kiers <kiers%original.xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:55:39PM +0200, Bert Kiers wrote:
> On 7/12/14 7:20 PM, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > Synopsis: multiple problems; lfs-related
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> > State-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
> > State-Changed-When: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 17:20:30 +0000
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > If there's anyone still on the other end of this... is there any reason to
> > believe this wasn't a driver or hardware issue? The fact that the problem
> > starts with a driver-level error makes me think it probably isn't LFS.
> > 
> > Reformatting with FFS and no longer seeing the issue doesn't really prove
> > anything as FFS has much different I/O patterns, and in particular when
> > rsyncing LFS will be ramming a lot more data down the disk system's throat.
> > (Or at least, a lot more at once.) If there was a load- or timing-dependent
> > problem at the disk level it's quite possible that FFS wouldn't trigger it,
> > especially if you weren't using softupdates.
> 
> System is scrapped. If somebody is really interested I could retry with
> newer computer, NetBSD-current and same box with disks.

I cannot reproduce this problem (same box of disks, new NetBSD, new
other hardware).

Grtnx,
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