From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 17:42: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068F137B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:41:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dleimbac@earthlink.net) Received: from mutt.home.net (1Cust189.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net [63.30.107.189]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20197 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dave@localhost) by mutt.home.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f580hNc00745 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:43:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dave) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:43:21 -0500 From: David Leimbach To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates crash -> data recovery ? Message-ID: <20010607194321.A671@mutt.home.net> References: <200106080010.f580ACx53402@mute.Verbose.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106080010.f580ACx53402@mute.Verbose.ORG>; from randy@verbose.org on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:10:12PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD mutt.home.net 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmmm... this would seem to suggest contrary information as to the value of a soft-updates file system... Is there a journaling file-system in the works for FreeBSD? Just curious as to why not... Everyone and their brother is doing a journaling file system... NTFS is one ReiserFS is one JFS is one.. I don't know about XFS. There must be some merit to them... Dave On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:10:12PM -0700, Randy Primeaux wrote: > How might I go about recovering data from a disk after softupdates > crashed? > > > Shortly after enabling softupdates on /usr, I had a system freeze > (back in January), and upon boot the next day, found: > > /dev/ad4s1f: CANNOT READ: BLK 16 > /dev/ad4s1f: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused) > > > /dev/ad4s1f is /usr including /usr/home > Disk is an IBM DTLA 307030. > > -- > Randy Primeaux > randy@Verbose.ORG > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message