Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:41:04 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Severe problems with softupdates. Message-ID: <19991112194103.A31258@cicely7.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <19991111201148.A5748@florence.pavilion.net> References: <19991111201148.A5748@florence.pavilion.net>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 08:11:49PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > Kirk mentioned that he was confident that softupdates was 'safe', but I've > had files (from a previous crash - recovered from) in lost+found that I > didn't touch, and no-way should have become disconnected from the file > system - they weren't even in buffercache at the time of the crash. > > I believe that Brian has also had the same problems (at FreeBSDCon). > > Can people put their hands up if they believe that they've experienced this > so that we can determine whether there's a deeper softupdates problem that > we're ignoring on faith? > > Also if anyone knows how to recover from it I'd be very grateful to know. > My /usr partition is uncleanable (although I can 'mount -f' it!! nasty!!). > fsdb is a good way to handle such cases. I know such things very well but I have to say that it only happens in case of hardware or driver failures. I never got problems because of softupdates itself. The cases I got were a disk with broken TQC in the firmware and some data- coruption in some vinum versions using R5. Softupdates seem to be able to trigger bugs in other layers. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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