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

[Scott Long]

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.

Scott