Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread Chad Whitacre
Kris, If relevant, I may be able to test your patch, but the problem is occurring only rarely. Do you have any suggestions for isolating and reproducing this bug? Run your script in a loop? And I assume I can meaningfully test w/o the rsync call? I.e., just mounting and unmounting the

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread Chad Whitacre
keep our backup drive always mounted until 6.1 comes out and test your patch then. :^) Thoughts? Thanks for your work on this. Chad Whitacre http://www.zetadev.com/ Jeff Roberson wrote: I plan to MFC all of this lovely stuff for 6.1: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/vfsmfc.diff I'm

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread Chad Whitacre
Kris, No, the rsync (i.e. activity on the filesystem) is important. Yeah, just ran a test w/o it actually. We are planning to run a test w/ some disk activity later this afternoon. I suppose the more activity, the more likely to see the bug, eh? chad

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread Chad Whitacre
Kris, Yes. FYI, I am fairly confident this is fixed, because I make extensive use of mount/umount+filesystem activity, and I am no longer seeing problems like this. Great! Thanks for the info. We won't kill ourselves trying to test this then. chad

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread Chad Whitacre
/sbin/umount /backup/ echo -n '.' done At this point our plan is to cross our fingers and wait for 6.1. Thanks for all your efforts! chad Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:33:28PM -0500, Chad Whitacre wrote: Kris, Yes. FYI, I am fairly confident this is fixed