Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 04:29:39 +1000 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FS corruption during rm -fr Message-ID: <199605061829.EAA01152@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199605061730.LAA18033@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 6, 96 11:30:06 am
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Nate Williams writes: > An easy way to recreate this bug is to check out the world, and then > remove it all. It will *always* leave at least one or two directories > that an un-removable. 3 passes of fsck in single-user mode are > necessary to clean this up, .. This seems to be two problems .. a quirk in the kernel plus a reference count problem for which Terry's been trying to get a patch into fsck for some time. fsck should "fix" it the first time .. michael
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