vfs_cache panic, 7.2-prerelease (stable)

[xorquewasp at googlemail.com]

On 2009-05-01 15:50:38, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2009 20:21:13 +0100
> xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Checking back through my sent mail from the DRI thread, this version
> > of -STABLE was checked out and compiled on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:42:51
> > +0100.
> > 
> > The machine was so new that I hadn't even set the clock, so the kernel
> > timestamps appear to be Jan 1.
> > 
> > I'll make an attempt to check out today's -STABLE and compile it but
> > I'm not optimistic that the machine will actually be able to build
> > world without reverting to a release first. 
> 
> You can always try to bypass namecache altogether while you are
> building the new kernel: do sysctl debug.vfscache=0

Hi.

Updating to today's -STABLE appears to have fixed the problem (or
at least it doesn't occur for the usage described in the PR!).

Thanks!

xw