Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:43:11 +0300 From: cronfy <cronfy@sprinthost.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive Message-ID: <4B1E2DBF.90901@sprinthost.ru> In-Reply-To: <4B1E2954.8020407@cyberleo.net> References: <4B1DF953.4050504@sprinthost.ru> <hfl7v5$f9j$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B1E2954.8020407@cyberleo.net>
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>>> .. but the hell why is it required to panic and kill everything >>> that would be working happily even if something very disasterous >>> happen to /backup partition, in example? >>> >> All those errors indicate file system corruption. To protect other data >> from getting corrupted (e.g. by invalid pointers or calculations), the >> kernel panics. >> > ...and (hopefully) reboots, determines that there were filesystem > errors, and attempts to correct them with fsck(8) Why isn't it possible to do the same without a reboot?
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