Re: 5.2-RELEASE: Possible bug in filesystem code?

From: Christian Laursen <xi_at_borderworlds.dk>
Date: 17 Jan 2004 21:34:23 +0100
Pete Carah <pete_at_altadena.net> writes:

> 2. The other source of a panic is if the background fsck detects a condition
> which would cause the "preen" fsck to abort and give the "run fsck manually"
> message at bootup, it (usually?) panics the system, usually with "freeing 
> freed inode".  I can't think of how to handle this case any better; this 
> is a "hobson's choice" condition :-(

That can only happen in two ways. Either there is a bug in softupdates which
prevents it from working correctly, or your disks are reporting data as written
when it is in fact only in the write cache.

-- 
Best regards
    Christian Laursen
Received on Sat Jan 17 2004 - 11:34:28 UTC

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