From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 21 14:00:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09470 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:00:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09464 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19618; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:00:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd019600; Sat Mar 21 15:00:22 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06995; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:00:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803212200.PAA06995@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: CURRENT Kernel Status To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 22:00:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu, karl@mcs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803202025.PAA17448@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Mar 20, 98 03:25:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Following up, just wanted to say that this latest set of bugs will > leave crud on your filesystems that fsck cannot fix. I'd like more detail on this. The fsck program is supposed to return your disk to a consistent state, regardless of whether or not the data resulted from bad writes or from physical problems with the disk (though in the latter case, you'd be silly to not back it up as soon as it was consistent, and throw the old disk away). I know that fsck will not necessarily be able to return the disk to the state that it would have been without the failure, but it should be possible for it to return it to a self-consistent state. If it can't, then we need to fix it (IMO). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message