On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 03:30:51AM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014, at 11:24 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > there are some interesting patches in bitrig that you could try to > > apply in the openbsd tree, recompile your kernel and see if > > any of them help. > > > > https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/commit/c2ce175 > > "Fix integer overflows handling objects >= 2G > > > > Fix a series of overflows preventing objects larger than two gigabytes > > from being handled correctly by uvm_aobj.c. Since kernel_object_store is > > 4G on amd64, this is slightly worrying." > > I started with this one, and I cannot get it to apply cleanly. It looks > like whatever is in -current now has diverged enough from what Bitrig > took or vice versa to make applying it by hand tricky at best. > > Given my horrible luck with this one, I am hesitant to try the others.
Yes, filesystem is an area where things can be very deadly... which is one reason why we haven't caught up with what Pedro did in undeadly yet. It is on my list of things to look at whenever I have a bit of time...

