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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2001 10:58:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
Cc:        chris@aims.com.au, mckusick@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Subject:   Re: background fsck
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010521105850.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B05E8BE.8AE0CD29@camtech.net.au>

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On 19-May-01 Matthew Thyer wrote:
> Is it possible that background fsck is not the culprit here ?  I think
> this may be fallout from the dirpref changes as Chris Knight recently
> emailed in <018b01c0c496$07ed13d0$020aa8c0@aims.private>.  The solution
> is to unmount all your filesystems, fsck them and then use tunefs with
> -A to change something so that all superblock backups will be updated.
> 
> Does this sound likely ?
> 
> Jason Evans wrote:
>> 
>> I had exactly the same thing happen to /var on an SMP test box using
>> -current as of 16 May.  It happened once out of about a half dozen panics.
>> 
>> Jason

My instances at least are not the result of dirpref, as my laptop tracks
-current very closely and I navigated the dirpref waters a while back.

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