Subject: kern/18944: mounting a disk with blocksize of 64k crashes the kernel
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <manu@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/05/2002 06:53:03
>Number:         18944
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       mounting a disk with blocksize of 64k crashes the kernel
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 05 06:54:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Emmanuel Dreyfus
>Release:        NetBSD-1.6
>Organization:
The NetBSD Project
>Environment:
NetBSD poulette 1.6_STABLE NetBSD 1.6_STABLE (SERVER) #0: Wed Oct  2 17:53:50 CEST 2002     manu@melancolie:/usr/src-1.6/sys/arch/i386/compile/SERVER i386
>Description:
When mounting a FFS filesystem with a blocksize of 64k, the kernel 
crashes. This happens both with a floppy and a vnd disk.


>How-To-Repeat:
With a floppy:

newfs -T floppy -f 65536 -b 65536 /dev/fd0a
mount /dev/fd0a /mnt

>Fix:
Not known yet.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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