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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:28:57 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 'attempt to write metadata' 
Message-ID:  <199608202228.PAA03571@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 22:50:45 -0000." <m00D56AB2@longacre.demon.co.uk> 

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>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



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