Re: kern/42616: tmpfs crashes on unmount after testing with "fsstress"

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/42616; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/42616: tmpfs crashes on unmount after testing with
 "fsstress"
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:36:37 +0000

 "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost> wrote:
 >      After reading about FreeBSD importing tmpfs, and then getting
 >      it to work reliably with the "fsstress" program, originally from
 >      SGI, but also ported to DragonFly, I thought I'd try it on
 >      NetBSD-4 to see if I should switch my production systems over to
 >      using tmpfs yet or not.
 > 
 > <...>
 >
 >      If this is already fixed in netbsd-5 is there any chance of
 >      getting the fix back-ported to netbsd-4?
 
 There were many fixes in netbsd-5 for tmpfs, please try it.  I doubt that
 somebody would backport them to netbsd-4.
 
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 Mindaugas