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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>
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 13:17:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Oct26.131750.16443@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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>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