I finished the crypt-fs hack into vnd a while back, but have found it
can sometime panic/freeze/die in most spectacular ways, on the i386 arch
whereas the sparc one just ticks along (so far, may be coincidence - it
is a lot slower).

Sticking a collection of large files (20Megs) on it and executing:

find . -name \*.cliff -exec rm -f {} \;
for i in `find . -type f -print`
do
cp $i $i.cliff
done

is quaranteed to kill it, for me atleast.

I've spent the last three days picking apart my code, and that of vnd,
with a tootpick (just exaggerating) only to find it appears to be
related to:

http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=10731
and 12189

in that if I turn off my code/encryption it still happens.

I've tried mounting it with "-o sync" and it does take noticably more
effort for it to die, but running my kill script enough times will get
it.

This is in a NetBSD-1.5 release kernel environment. Has any work been
done to vnd since then, or is it still just as (possibly) broken?


Thanks,

Lundy


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