svn commit: r307626 - head/sys/ufs/ffs

Juli Mallett jmallett at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 14 01:11:08 UTC 2016


On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll try it tonight.
>
> It's just unfortunate that it broke a system like this. I understand if it's
> supposed to just work and hasn't. But typically the onus on fixing things is
> on the person who broke behaviour, even if it is due to unrelated issues.

This is not true.  Networking crashes caused by NIC driver bugs do not
get treated that way.

> I'd like to hopefully find some minimal way to keep things working as is
> until a better longer term solution is found, and I would also like to see
> some larger scale testing of things on other platforms so we can catch them
> earlier.

On older kernels you should be able to test sharing memory between
processes, or multiple mmaps of a file, or similar, I guess?


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