misc/119529: Freezes when compiling code on mounter ext2fs partitions

[Simeon]

>Number:         119529
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Freezes when compiling code on mounter ext2fs partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 10 13:20:02 UTC 2008
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Simeon
>Release:        7.0 RC1 everything default
>Organization:
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>Environment:
AMD64
>Description:
Hello,

I would like to report a strange behaviour of FreeBSD AMD64 ver. 7.0 RC1. I installed it on a  Laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. Everything default. I have an ext2fs partition where I store all installed compilers and libraries. I changed directory to my ext3 (ext2fs) partition and I started compiling one of my libraries. The system Hanged. I repeated the same thing with several other libraries (ATLAS(BLAS), LAPACK, ...) and
everytime the system hanged. Then I copied the sources to /usr and I compiled them there. No problem. Everything was fine there.

Best,
Simeon.

>How-To-Repeat:
It is very easy to repeat. Just mount an ext2fs partition copy some large source code and try to compile it there.
>Fix:
There was a similar problem in the past and it was supposed to be fixed
in 6.2. Maybe now for some reason it came back to life. 

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