Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:50:30 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More on bad dir panics Message-ID: <Mutt.19970225205030.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702251537.RAA11533@news.clinet.fi>; from Heikki Suonsivu on Feb 25, 1997 17:37:55 %2B0200 References: <199702251537.RAA11533@news.clinet.fi>
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As Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > > I have been trying to look around the crash dumps, as they are plentiful > these days (twice a day seems to be the current rate). These always happen > at the same point and all crashes are similar, crash occurs on directory > lookup stombling over a block which contains something else than directory > data. > > I can arrange access to crash dumps and kernels (with symbols). I think these are pretty useless for "bad dir" etc panics. These panics more sound like trashed data on the disk than something you could trace inside the kernel right when the panic happens. You need the history for the drive, but that's of course hard. See also Thomas David Rivers's investigations... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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