Date: 2 Dec 1995 22:10:03 +0800 From: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!!!! Message-ID: <49pmnr$rlf$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <9511291528.aa11215@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu>, <199512020206.TAA03219@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) writes: >> Okay, this is getting out of hand! Lately I've been having all types >> of problems with my file-system. It's been getting corrupted and I've >> been losing files like mad. This morning was the last straw! Half of >> /etc is missing. I reboot my machine and it calls itself `Amnesiac' >> because it can't find any of it's rc files. I can't even fsck because >> most of /sbin is gone too (or is it /usr/sbin...). >> >> >> So, where should I begin. Is there any file-system that I should >> specifically be using or are there any newfs options that I need to >> give when I use the disklabel program? >I don't think you can do anything for now. Apparently some patches for >async mounts adversely affected non-async mounts. "Apparently" is a pretty ambiguous word. Does this mean you heard somebody ask if it was the async changes? Have you considered the possibility that it was one of the other changes that went in at about the same time that was breaking the people that were seeing the problem? For instance, I've never had the problem on ISA machines, and I've not heard anybody with problems on a PCI machine.. Just by coincidence, the people that described their hardware were running EISA and 284X controllers. Guess what? There was a major EISA rewrite about the same time as John committed his benign Async changes.... Please check before implying blame for unrelated problems on somebody's changes that you appear to not agree with in principle... Unfortunately I dont know what the problem on that particular machine might be. He didn't supply enough info.. For example, it might have been useful to know what version of the OS he's running. If it's not the latest -current, then that immediately rules out Async. It vaguely reminds me of the msdosfs problems, but he didn't say what he was using... I normally would have assumed that he'd have mentioned msdosfs if he was using it, but since he didn't even mention what OS.. who's to know? -Peter > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers.
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