I work with a small number of FreeBSD 7.3p1 amd64 systems which are
running off of an MFS root partition loaded via a DVD, and there have
been a couple of problems with the mfsroot. I'd like to focus on one in
particular and see if the assembled minds here have any insight as to
what this might be.
Basically if I do this:
# yes >/crashme
the system doesn't panic, there's no warning (except for some
random 'k' characters being output to the console) and the machine
simply resets.
I have some configuration details on the following URL:
http://www.jetcafe.org/dave/freebsd/dvdconfig.html
for perusal. The df for said machine looks like so:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/md0c 270M 231M 39M 85% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/acd0 606M 606M 0B 100% /cd0
/dev/md1.uzip 254M 225M 29M 89% /usr
/dev/md2 31M 30K 30M 0% /usr_rw
<above>:/usr_rw 284M 254M 30M 89% /usr
/dev/da1s1d 653G 1.0G 600G 0% /rw
procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
I would expect that a system running off of MFS would inform one via log
files or console messages when I fill up the root partition. I'd say
it's definately a bug but I'm not sure if it's mine or not. :)
Thanks in advance for any answers you all can provide.
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Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org
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