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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