From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 15:33:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA08845 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA08839 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id PAA26788 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id PAA03571; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608202228.PAA03571@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Michael Searle cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'attempt to write metadata' In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 22:50:45 -0000." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:28:57 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Does this console message mean anything? >vnode_pager_output: attempt to write meta-data!!! -- 0xfffe8000(ff) > >I got this as a bold kernel message, followed by two copies of it as >standard syslog messages. (: BTW, multiple exclamation marks are the sign of >a diseased mind, or something. :) > >I am using 2.1R. I can't see the console messages until I quit X, so I don't >know exactly what I was doing at the time, but the only unusual disky thing >I did was a sync (not immediately followed by shutdown). I was running some >partitions async. It's a bug that is believed to be fixed in 2.1.5 (you should upgrade). It is probably benign, however. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project