Re: kern/44504: kernel panics when dding some block sizes to USBflash drives at sd0

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/44504; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/44504: kernel panics when dding some block sizes to
 USBflash drives at sd0
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 05:19:39 +0000

 On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:10:06AM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
  >     5.1 Install Notes says in "Known Problems" section:
  >  
  >     >> Using block device nodes (e.g., wd0a) directly for I/O may cause
  >     >> a kernel crash when the file system containing /dev is FFS and
  >     >> is mounted with -o log.
  >     >> Workaround: use raw disk devices (e.g., rwd0a), or remount
  >     >> the file system without -o log. 
  >  
  >  Well, I guess that's it.
 
 I assume this means the fix isn't suitable for pullup, so I guess we
 should close the PR?
 
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 David A. Holland
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