My last checkin was in mid-March, so I am highly suspicious that someone else has done something to create this problem. Unfortunately, this panic comes about because of something that caused the bitmaps to get trashed sometime (possibly much) earlier. The usual suspects are updates to the bitmap that are failing (e.g., the I/O is not being done), or in-memory trashing (e.g., wild pointers). Given the nature of the fsck output, it looks like bitmap updates that are not being properly done. A good quick test is to mount a filesystem, add some files to it, unmount it and run fsck to see if any discrepencies show up. As the unmount sometimes forces writes that would otherwise fail, running a background fsck on it (fsck_ffs -B /foo) will sometimes show the problem a bit better. Kirk McKusickReceived on Fri May 02 2003 - 14:39:26 UTC
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