On 23-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> [client] >> $ for i in `jot 512 7680`; do >> cp /smb/urchin/pub/bytes/$i . || break; >> done >> cp: ./8145: Bad address >> >> If I truss the cp process, I get this: >> >> [...] >> open("/smb/urchin/pub/bytes/8145",0x0,00) = 3 (0x3) >> open("./8145",0x401,00) = 4 (0x4) >> mmap(0x0,8145,0x1,0x1,3,0x0) = 671461376 (0x2805b000) >> >> I don't have my laptop set up as a serial debugging client now, so >> that's as far as I can go. :-( > > AHA! > > The reason an FFS write resulted in an SMBFS read is that > you had mmap()'ed an SMBFS file, and then wrote a mapped > but-not-in-core page to the target FFS file. > > Knowing that the code involved is in the paging path of the > SMBFS code is important. > > What happens if you: > > dd if=/smb/urchin/pub/bytes/8145 of=8145 > > ? I expect that it works, no problem. > > This localizes the problem to the VOP_GETPAGES that gets hit > in the SMBFS case.
Umm, terry. Did you even read all of this thread? He did a simple cat(1) later which used read(2) and it got an actual error back from read(2). Also, Sheldon is not the original submitter of the problem report. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message