Re: reproducible crash when building sysutils/net-snmp

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:56:22AM +1100, Geoff Wing wrote:
> On Friday 2008-01-11 21:00 +1100, Michael Graff output:
> :I have a problem on my dual AMD32-bit machine related to deleting files on 
> :disk.  I don't know if it is a driver issue or related to the locking 
> changes 
> :recently, but it only started then and a 4.99.45 kernel built on Dec 28 
> works 
> :fine.
> :Basically, the rm process locks up when I rm -rf a large directory.  In this 
> :case, the object directory from the build, which I clean up just prior to 
> :starting a new build.
> 
> This happens to me on dual i386.  However, it may just happen on LFS
> not FFS.  I haven't isolated it properly.

Slow rm -rf with softdep was fixed a few days ago. Read/write LFS is still
busted, it's next on my list of bugs to look at.

Thanks,
Andrew