On Wednesday, 18 August 1999 at 9:50:54 -0400, Mark J. Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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>> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:19:20 -0400, "Mark J. Taylor" wrote:
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>>> There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long.
>>> Otherwise, you'll get panics (c
Matthew Dillon writes:
> This is very odd. I use several multi-disk ccd stripes, including one at
> BEST across three 18G drives (one 54G partition!). I've never had a
> problem.
>
> I believe that at some point in the past 'newfs' and 'fsck' had overflow
> problems,
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:> There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long.
:> Otherwise, you'll get panics (can't remember where).
:> Basically, bcount needs to be a u_long in all cases.
:
:Que? Are you sure? That means you want to change struct buf, where
:b_bcount is declared as long, as well?
:We didn't go as far as modifying the structure definition, just the
:few "bcount" variables in the ccd.c code.
:The problem was that we were seeing bcount go "negative". I believe that
:"newfs" of the ccd would panic the kernel, reliably. Even on "smaller"
:ccds (1 Gbyte), I believe.
:I'm talki
We didn't go as far as modifying the structure definition, just the
few "bcount" variables in the ccd.c code.
The problem was that we were seeing bcount go "negative". I believe that
"newfs" of the ccd would panic the kernel, reliably. Even on "smaller"
ccds (1 Gbyte), I believe.
I'm talking a
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:19:20 -0400, "Mark J. Taylor" wrote:
> There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long.
> Otherwise, you'll get panics (can't remember where).
> Basically, bcount needs to be a u_long in all cases.
Que? Are you sure? That means you want to change st
This may be related:
There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long.
Otherwise, you'll get panics (can't remember where).
Basically, bcount needs to be a u_long in all cases.
I haven't gotten around, because of the NetMAX for Linux project, to
comitting things like this t
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:39:35 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> Why did you take this one?
Because I thought it was a simple problem with dd. :-)
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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On Tuesday, 17 August 1999 at 10:28:34 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>> 4. [not quite easy] The CCD device ditto.
>> Earn brownie points: Make ccdconfig use sysctl instead of
>> libkvm to read back configuration.
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