Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:24:20 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, cronfy <cronfy@sprinthost.ru> Cc: CyberLeo <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive Message-ID: <4B1E2954.8020407@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <hfl7v5$f9j$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <4B1DF953.4050504@sprinthost.ru> <hfl7v5$f9j$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > cronfy wrote: >> ... but the hell why is it required to panic and kill everything >> that would be working happily even if something very disasterous >> happen to /backup partition, in example? > > All those errors indicate file system corruption. To protect other data > from getting corrupted (e.g. by invalid pointers or calculations), the > kernel panics. ...and (hopefully) reboots, determines that there were filesystem errors, and attempts to correct them with fsck(8) -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <CyberLeo@CyberLeo.Net> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/
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