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Date:      Sun, 01 Dec 1996 09:38:33 -0500
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
To:        sos@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Corrupted CVS updates
Message-ID:  <32A19869.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>
References:  <199612011411.PAA23207@ravenock.cybercity.dk>

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Soren Schmidt wrote:

> 
> Hmm, I have seen various problems with some of the bigger CTM
> patches (esp. those that touch all files), this triggers our
> old well known (but not understood) vm problem, that manifests
> itself as an bogus diskblock (one page), that will disappear if
> the disk is unmounted & then mounted again 95% of the times, the
> last 5% that invalid block will have been written back to disk :(
> It seems that my systems has been suffering pretty bad from this
> over the last ~14 days or so. I have one workaround for this:
> mount the disks via nfs and do the update from another machine,
> this fixes the problem, but is dog slow....
> 
Sorry for my Netscape reply -- only mailer that I have right
now that supports mime...

Could you tell me if you are mounting your filesystems async?
I am looking at the problem (in filesystem mode -- unfortunately
meant to be in documentation mode.)

John



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