Subject: Re: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/27/2002 16:39:58
In article <Pine.NEB.4.33.0202262233120.1686-100000@rivendell.starwolf.com>,
Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Stephen Borrill wrote:
>
>This does not sound like a good plan.  If triply indirect blocks don't
>work then the fundaments of the FFS are broken and need to be fixed,
>not worked around or swept under the rug.
>
>If you can get around triple indirection, yes, it's a perf win, but
>don't leave it broken.
>

Let's be clear here. Charles fixed the problem with triple indirection, so
AFAIK there are no known bugs in that code. What I said was that I am still
seeing corruption with an EL-CHEAPO VIA motherboard, but that I believe has
to do with hardware flakeyness.

christos