Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/ufs/ufs
To: None <dbj@netbsd.org>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/15/2004 21:54:15
hi,
> Can you please request this change to be pulled up to the netbsd-2-0
> branch? The patch looks ok to me.
i will do after a few days. i don't like immediate pullups...
> How did you uncover this problem? I've been interested in testing
> filesystems with large numbers of logical blocks by creating a 2tb
> ufs2 filesystem with a 512 byte fragment size, but haven't yet done so
> myself.
"dd if=/dev/zero of=a seek=1t" and see softdep panics.
no need to create a large filesystem,
because what matters in this case are file offsets.
to test disk offsets, using vnd(4) on a large sparse file over nfs
might be the easiest way.
> Do you know if there are other problems lurking for that
> case?
no.
YAMAMOTO Takashi