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From: hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0.2 with NFS-mounted /usr - strange fsck problem
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Date: 2 Jan 1994 14:42:57 GMT
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Joe Greco (jgreco@fleis.moneng.mei.com) wrote:
: some other playing.  Changing the fsck -p to a plain fsck works, but has
: obvious disadvantages on a system that should run unattended.  It seems like
: it is hanging when it forks off the fsck for wd0e.

The is the exact description of one of the original race conditions in the
wd driver.  To my knowledge; this bug has never been fixed in any of the
wd/wx drivers for all controllers... Note; I said "to my knowledge" so I 
could be wrong.

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