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
Jeff, Kris Kennaway directed me to this thread from FreeBSD-questions. I am seeing a panic: unmount: dangling vnode with 6.0-RELEASE. Here are the relevant threads: 2 probs w/ backup.sh: Device busy and dangling vnode

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:58:35AM -0500, Chad Whitacre wrote: 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

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 Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:26:47PM -0500, Chad Whitacre wrote: 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

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 Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:33:28PM -0500, Chad Whitacre wrote: 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

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/3/06, Jeff Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plan to MFC all of this lovely stuff for 6.1: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/vfsmfc.diff I'm looking for people who are willing to patch their stable boxes and test this. This has the following changes in it: 1) Improved debugging

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:15:59AM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: Do you have a list of the PRs that this affects and/or resolves? I don't know of any relevant PRs, but I haven't looked very hard. The bugs Jeff has been fixing are mostly those I've been able to reproduce myself in testing. I'm

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-07 Thread Chad Whitacre
Kris, For the record, we ran the following for about 30 minutes, with no ill effect: #!/bin/sh exec /var/log/panic exec 21 echo echo `date` -- trying to panic while [ 1 ] do /sbin/mount /backup/ /bin/rm -rf /backup/foo /bin/cp -R /usr/bin /backup/foo

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-05 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:41:55PM -0800, Jeff Roberson wrote: I plan to MFC all of this lovely stuff for 6.1: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/vfsmfc.diff I'm looking for people who are willing to patch their stable boxes and test this. This

Re: VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-04 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:41:55PM -0800, Jeff Roberson wrote: I plan to MFC all of this lovely stuff for 6.1: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/vfsmfc.diff I'm looking for people who are willing to patch their stable boxes and test this. This has the following changes in it: 1)

VFS MFC testers wanted

2006-03-03 Thread Jeff Roberson
I plan to MFC all of this lovely stuff for 6.1: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/vfsmfc.diff I'm looking for people who are willing to patch their stable boxes and test this. This has the following changes in it: 1) Improved debugging with DEBUG_LOCKS via the new stack(9) api. 2)