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Subject: Writing files larger than floppy capacity with tar reboots machine
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>Number:         12367
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Writing files larger than floppy capacity with tar reboots machine
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 23 16:50:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Aug 13 11:42:16 MEST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Aug 13 11:43:45 MEST 2001
>Originator:     Ken Lui
>Release:        3.2 release
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD black 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #11: Tue Jun  1 21:04:12 PDT 1999
     root@black.tmpest1.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLACK  i386

AMDK6-2, 64MB, ALi chipset

>Description:
Using tar, 1.11.2, to attempt to write multi-volume files to floppies
result in a freeze followed by a reboot. No logs appear in log message
logfile.

>How-To-Repeat:
su
<insert floppy>
<format, disklabel, newfs if necessary>
<select file > 1.44MB>
tar cvMf /dev/fd0 file
<machine will wedge and reboot after tar runs "out of room."
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: green 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jul 11 01:49:07 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is a known issue. Also, you should be using the _raw_ device 
for all operations other than mounts, not the cooked device. 
You want /dev/rfd0 
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 13 11:42:16 MEST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Since we do no longer offer user-visible buffered devices, this 
problem is now completely solved.  Verified that multi-volume tar 
archives to floppies do work as expected. 


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