Re: hang/panic: newfs of 4.3 FFS (filesystem only) on vnd1

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost> writes:

> Not sure yet whether this is in the filesystem or block device driver
> or something else, but I just had my ProLiant DL360p Gen8 running 11.0
> + fixes hang/panic while trying to create a “v0” (4.3) FFS filesystem
> (only, no disklabel) in an empty file mounted at vnd0.

AIUI, newfs just does seek and write on the raw device.  My guess would
be a vnd(4) issue.   I am unclear on what you did exactly:

  - Is this running as amd64?
  - What is the backing filesystem where you have the file that is used
    for vnd?
  - Did you pre-create the backing file with "dd if=/dev/zero of=fs1.img
    bs=1m count=500"?
  - Are you running newfs to /dev/vnd0d, or ?

> Since this system has an extreme amount of RAM I disabled dumps, and I

  - How much RAM does it have?