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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 06:42:44 -0500
From:      "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
To:        "Matthew Thyer" <thyerm@camtech.net.au>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Disk munging problem with current solved
Message-ID:  <005b01bd5199$cdbfff00$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>

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bah! wussies... :)

can anyone suggest a good tape backup? j/k

-Alfred

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
To: current@FreeBSD.ORG <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: Disk munging problem with current solved


>I know you dont want to hear this,
>
>But,
>
>For all non-developers who run -CURRENT,
>
>This is one good reason for using CTM
>
>You get to hear about the serious problems from the cvs-uppers
>before you get the suspect CTM delta!
>
>[Me: just thinking I'm glad I haven't lost my filesystems since
>I dont have many backup options]
>
>Karl Denninger wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:56:46AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
>> > In reply to John S. Dyson who wrote:
>> > > I haven't read any emails or complaints yet about filesystem
problems,
>> > > but I know that those who have tried to run -current in the last day
or
>> > > so have had terrible problems.  The problems didn't manifest for me
until
>> > > too late, and I ended up with hosed filesystems.  The problems were
caused
>> > > by vtruncbuf doing bad things, and I have corrected them as quickly
as
>> > > possible.  My machine has been down due to the creeping crud
associated
>> > > with the flaw in the routine.
>> > >
>> > > Things are looking much better now (for me at least), and I have
committed
>> > > the fix.
>> >
>> > Thankyou!!, I was THIS close to trashing my main machine yesterday....
>> >
>>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-=-
>> > Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD
Core Team
>>
>> I just got another case of the same problem with a kernel that has the
>> believed fix in it, writing to a new filesystem.
>>
>> BE CAREFUL OUT THERE at the present time.
>>
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>--
>/=====================================================================\
>|Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au|
>\=====================================================================/
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>quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some
>larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the
>question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our
>Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
> E. P. Tryon   from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973
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