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Date:      Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:42:48 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdates and/or fsck bugs or features?
Message-ID:  <199810182042.OAA26288@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810182023.NAA09222@usr07.primenet.com>
References:  <199810181800.MAA00681@harmony.village.org> <199810182023.NAA09222@usr07.primenet.com>

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> > I had a couple of nasty crashes on my machine that has soft updates
> > enabled.  It would appear that I've also managed to get some
> > interesting corruption on one of my volumes.
..
> Update your fsck.
> 
> There was a bug in fsck that had it not counting the link in / and
> the links in the /lost+found directory.
> 
> I submitted a patch a while back that fixed this bug.

This patch was committed by me after Don Lewis reviewed the patch, and I
concurred with the analysis made by both of you.

> Alternately, you have commit priviledges, and this was discussed in
> depth on the -current list a number of weeks ago (and if you are
> running the most recent -current and are still seeing this, then
> no one with commit priviledges acted upon the discussion, though
> I know of at least two people, one of them a core member, who
> participated in the discussion).

I'm not a core member, but the patch is in the tree:

revision 1.12
date: 1998/09/23 05:37:35;  author: nate;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -3
- Back out softupdate change that already existed in FreeBSD from V1.6,
  which caused the reference count of a directory to get doubly
  decremented.

PR:             bin/8030
Reviewed by:    nate
Submitted by:   Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>



Nate

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