writing to gvinum volume causes system freeze

[Lukas Ertl]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Andrew Heyn wrote:

> Ok,  I downloaded the 6-CURRENT snapshot and that worked just fine.  Is
> there any way it can be fixed for 5.4?
> I guess I will have to install this machine with 6-CURRENT and wait
> until 5.5 and pray nothing breaks until then.

You only need the sources for the geom_vinum module and the gvinum 
command.  You should be able to recompile and install both on 5.3.  5.4 
has all the fixes.

cheers,
le

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