[PATCH] amr(4) testers needed...

[Doug Ambrisko]

Scott Long writes:
| Joao Barros wrote:
| > On 7/11/06, John Baldwin <john at baldwin.cx> wrote:
| > 
| >> I have a patch for amr(4) that is a forward-port of a Scott Long patch 
| >> for 4.x
| >> that fixes some severe data corruption with amr(4) + PAE on 4.x with > 
| >> 4GB of
| >> RAM.  I need the patch tested on current though so I can get it into 
| >> HEAD and
| >> eventually into 4.x.  The patch for head is at
| >> http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/amr_head.patch  It shouldn't break
| >> anything and should basically be a nop.  I think the patch will apply 
| >> to 6.x
| >> (and possibly 5.x) as well.  Thanks!
| >>
| > 
| > I can test it on i386 without PAE. Is that test enough?
| 
| Note that this problem is only present when you're using a management
| app at the same time as heavy disk activity is going on. If you're
| not using a management app (and few people are, the lack of apps is why
| I didn't catch this in the first place), then you're completely safe.
| John's email might be taken as a little alarmist in this respect.

Hmm, I wonder why we don't see it or maybe we are :-(  We don't usually
hit the disk hard but have a management app. running.  I've seen
some strangeness.

Doug A.