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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:09:11 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812032105570.5850-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <199812040238.SAA27887@root.com>

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[snipped everyone but the list out of my reply.. no sense in filling up
those mailboxes twice for this]

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, David Greenman wrote:

> >I posted a message a while back when this bug first started to bite.  I
> >have a good coredump or two (using debugging kernel and all) if anyone
> >wants them.  Kirk told me he would look at Greg's dump first and get
> >back to me if he needed more samples, but I haven't heard from him.  I
> >can build a more recent world (mine is a couple weeks old now) and turn
> >on vfs.ffs.doreallocblks again to get a more recent dump.  It occurrs
> >without having to do much work.  My system has been rock solid ever
> >since I set vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0 at boot, so it isn't hardware
> >instability like I thought it may have been.
> 
>    There was a bug found in the original code that has been fixed. What we're
> interested in now is continued problems *after* the bugfix (about Nov 18th).
> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

I'll try out the latest code this weekend and then pound on the box for
a while and see if it fails.  I _thought_ I had tried it after the fix
was commited and it still failed, but I'm not sure anymore.


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
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