Re: kern/40375: netbsd-5: Process locks in vnode wchan when writing to LFS

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40375; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/40375: netbsd-5: Process locks in vnode wchan when
        writing to LFS
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:36:30 +0000

 On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:45:00PM +0000, mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost 
wrote:
  > Since I was told that LFS was supposed to be more stable nowadays
  > than it was when I used it in the 1.5 days, I thought I'd give it
  > a try.
 
 Unfortunately, it's pretty much broke again in 5.0, due to the
 introduction of real fine-grained locking.
 
 For now, try 4.0_STABLE; there's also some talk of making an
 lfs-renovation branch so it'll be usable again in 6.0.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost