Subject: Re: uvm_fault panic on 4.0_BETA2/amd64
To: George Peter Staplin <georgeps@xmission.com>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/22/2007 13:27:21
George Peter Staplin wrote:
> Quoted Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>:
>
>> I did not write the information down, but I'm fairly certain I
>> experienced this multiple times within the last 2-3 days using a large
>> LFS root partition.  I have not gotten it using FFSv[12].
>>
>> I had intended on switching over to an LFS root, but gave up because
>> of this plus [what seemed to be] deadlocks.
>>
>> If it would help I will partition off some space and get a backtrace
>> (this is amd64 and I wasn't running a kernel built with
>> -fno-omit-frame-pointer) and line information.
>
> I think it's clear that LFS will never be stable with the current 
> people working on it.  LFS needs to be restructured, like many parts 
> of NetBSD.  It contains a lot of unfactored, densely-nested code.

I think I would rather see time spent on porting ZFS to NetBSD than ongoing
work on LFS such as refactoring the LFS code.

Darren