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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!wiserner From: wiserner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernd Wiserner) Subject: Re: [BUG?] newfs with bsize = 16 kb ? References: <2agbtr$5v0@Germany.EU.net> <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Oct25153858@stark.uucp> <CFI5oM.n3u@flatlin.ka.sub.org> Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem) Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 13:17:50 GMT Message-ID: <1993Oct26.131750.16443@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Lines: 16 > >The answer as to why a blocksize larger than MAXBSIZE trashes system >memory is that in NetBSD0.9 the routines in vfs_bio.c make no attempt >whatsoever to prevent the allocation of a buffer greater than >MAXBSIZE but will not allocate more than MAXBSIZE of memory to the >buffer. > >Consider this a bug report. :-) > >As to why Mr. Wiserner's system trashes the filesystems one can only >speculate, as he choose not to tell us which version he is running. It was NetBSD 0.9 . >Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org +49 721 606137