Re: t7063 failure on FreeBSD 10.3 i386/amd64

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2016, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CVT8Y2DBGUfABGJfyOqPrm9LHt5Kx8RxoKZ=7XvF0grg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160720030226.GA7112@whir>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:

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> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
>> > Oops, forgot to Cc some folks who worked on this :x
>> >
>> > Filesystem is ufs and it fails regardless of whether
>> > soft-updates is enabled or not.
>>
>> Nothing stands out to my eyes, so I'm going to install freebsd this
>> weekend. I hope ufs does not have any nasty surprise for me. Stay
>> tuned.
>
> Thanks, this problem might be ufs-specific, tmpfs is fine.
> Tested tmpfs with:
>
>         kldload tmpfs
>         mkdir /tmp/tmpfs
>         mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp/tmpfs
>
> (Documenting all this since much of this is new to me)

If you can, try with some other "real" filesystems, not virtual ones like tmpfs, e.g. zfs or ext2 (not sure if it's supported on fbsd). This is just to make sure I didn't hit a bug specific to fbsd. Don't worry if you don't have time to do it. I'll get to it eventually.

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> I noticed FreeBSD now provides ready-to-run VM images along with
> normal installation stuff, including qcow2 ones for QEMU users,
> so that saves some time.
>
> http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.3-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2.xz

Yeah that's what I'm going to do, but not right now..

-- 
Duy