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Date:      Sat, 04 Aug 2018 04:51:01 +0100
From:      Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>
To:        jamie@catflap.org, fbsd@www.zefox.net
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, fbsd@www.zefox.net
Subject:   Re: RPI3 swap experiments (insufficient swap)
Message-ID:  <201808040351.w743p25Z086198@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>
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bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:

> That matches my usual experience. The "disk errors"  show up under duress,
> as when the machine is deliberately run out of swap. Much more rarely, they
> turn up on a reboot, seemingly about the time the system mounts the filesystems.
>
> At one point a series of reboots failed consecutively. Simply going to single
> user first, then exiting the shell, allowed a successful startup.
>
> Does anything special happen on the very first reference to a storage device
> during startup?

I haven't seen anything like that, but then, you've most likely done more rebooting
and testing than I have.

No idea on your question, sorry...

cheers, Jamie



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