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Date:      17 Jan 2004 21:34:23 +0100
From:      Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2-RELEASE: Possible bug in filesystem code?
Message-ID:  <86oet2z54g.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20040117142950.GA28573@users.altadena.net>
References:  <20040117142950.GA28573@users.altadena.net>

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Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net> writes:

> 2. The other source of a panic is if the background fsck detects a condition
> which would cause the "preen" fsck to abort and give the "run fsck manually"
> message at bootup, it (usually?) panics the system, usually with "freeing 
> freed inode".  I can't think of how to handle this case any better; this 
> is a "hobson's choice" condition :-(

That can only happen in two ways. Either there is a bug in softupdates which
prevents it from working correctly, or your disks are reporting data as written
when it is in fact only in the write cache.

-- 
Best regards
    Christian Laursen



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