>> Partially - some ARM ports seem to be affected too, so better check 
>> with the SPARCs.
>
> You mean hpcarm? I don't think that it's affected by this problem, 
> because it does
> not panic as it seems to happen on macppc.
>
> And, as I can confirm, the system remains still pingable, it only gets 
> rather
> unusefull.
>
> What it could be done for all ports is to not allow the creation of a 
> MFS partition
> that was specified to be greater than RAM+SWAP.

uhm, on macppc (i.e. my G4, see my post before) it crashed with MFS < 
RAM. everytime.

regards,

timo