Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:21:32 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Cc: staffanu@nada.kth.se, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panic Message-ID: <199812221721.PAA14790@roma.coe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812192349250.3513-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> from Tom at "Dec 19, 1998 11:51:39 pm"
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#define quoting(Tom) // On 20 Dec 1998, Staffan Ulfberg wrote: // // > I sort of think that a kernel panic is a bug, regardless of the level // > of stupidity needed to trigger it. Any comments? // // Well, basically you corrupted your filesystems. Corrupted filesystems // cause panics. It isn't a bug. Panics are the only recourse. What else // could the kernel do? The filesystem is unintelligble. The safest thing // is to panic, which should cause a reboot and perhaps will be better next // time around. Just wondering: couldn't it try to umount the filesystem if it's not root ? It would not mount it again without running fsck, it's not clean. Possible problems: Buffer management and file syncing should be flushed in this case, and completely ignore what's in core memory. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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