>Number:         8172
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       MAKEDEV hang on LFS filesystem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug  7 18:20:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Manuel Bouyer
>Organization:

Myself

>Release:        NetBSD as cvs updated last friday afternoon (MET)
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD rochebonne.antioche.eu.org 1.4J NetBSD 1.4J (ROCHEBONNE) #5: Sat Aug 7 19:03:30 MEST 1999 bouyer@rochebonne.antioche.eu.org:/home/bouyer/1.4I/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ROCHEBONNE i386


>Description:
	
	While attempting to copy the content of a FFS filesystem to an LFS
	using find/cpio, the cpio process hung hard while copying the content
	of a diskless sparc boot setup. I narroed this down to creating
	devices. Running sparc's MAKEDEV hung hard as well.
	Any process attempting to access the directory where devices are
	created hand also in the D state.
	The machine is still usable (I sent this from the said machine with a
	mknod and ls process hung) but the processes hung need are unkillable.
	A 'halt' or 'reboot' will hang as well, only a reset will get rid of
	this.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Assuming /mnt is a LFS filesystem:
	mkdir /mnt/dev
	cp /usr/src/etc/etc.sparc/MAKEDEV /mnt/dev
	cd /mnt/dev
	sh MAKEDEV all

>Fix:
	Unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
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