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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!zib-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!news From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0-Release problems and praise Date: 29 Jan 1995 14:28:51 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3gg8fr$c7m@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <NICKEL.95Jan27003802@toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de> <3ga32e$bvl@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de NNTP-Posting-Host: toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 27 Jan 1995 06:15:42 GMT In article <3ga32e$bvl@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > In article <NICKEL.95Jan27003802@toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de>, > Juergen Nickelsen <nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: [I rwote about compile errors popping up randomly] > This is bad. It indicates that you're having some sort of cache > problem, or something is flakey with your hardware. You should not > see this kind of thing, needless to say! That's what I feared. The really weird thing is that I get these errors nearly exclusively in vnode_if.h -- can anyone help out what I should look for? To repeat: this is a Quantum Lightning 730 together with a Fujitsu M2614SA on an Adaptec 1542A host adapter. [system being fragile in general] > Yes, this is not surprising. I've said it a number of times in this group > (as have other core team members), but I'll repeat: 2.0, as nice as it is in > many ways, is *rough*! We were fairly forced into releasing it due to > the legal problems with USL killing off 1.x and us not wanting to go for > months and months without anything to offer at all! Jordan, I'm sorry if this sounded offensive -- it wasn't meant that way. Surely you folks worked under a high pressure to get something out as soon as possible. I am very grateful for what you have done and I am content with the fact that the result had to be less than ideal given the circumstances. -- Juergen Nickelsen