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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:05:24AM +0000, u-codalist-9wcu_at_aetey.se wrote: > > > > all get their .. entries (should be the same directory) in this bad > > state at once. > > I would become suspicious concerning the kernel part of Coda as ".." is > subject to lot of special handling there. I did not test NetBSD for > several months so can not contribute with the actual experience. > Agreed - that does sound like a suspect high on the list, perhaps another ipl64 issue. > Another guess is about the client RVM being quite large. > This may trigger subtle bugs if some pointers are being limited > in range (truncated?) or otherwise if something collides with > RVM in the address space - which always is an issue when you > mmap at a fixed address as RVM needs. > Oh, the bugs are less than subtle - there are 32bit types in the rvm structures that would wrap, no doubt about it. I did try fixing them but that made my coda server core dump which sort of stalled me. -- Brett Lymn Staple Guns: because duct tape doesn't make that KerCHUNK sound - xkcd.comReceived on 2013-01-23 04:40:02