Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:22:21 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, bford@uop.cs.uop.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size Message-ID: <199812030722.AAA12187@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <14136.912669559@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <199812030710.XAA59381@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <14136.912669559@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> > Although I normally appreciate your humor, this bug is not > > funny. Version 1.74 of vfs_cluster.c does not fix the problem, > > and a person can totally destroy their filesystems. > > It wasn't an attempt at humor - I thought he still had an older kernel > too and thought that David's attempted fix (I say "attempted" since it > is clearly still nuking you) would set him right. > > > sysctl -w vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0 > > > > Is the correct response. > > Why isn't this currently the default if it's as pathological as you > say? Has anyone actually asked David this question? It would be > only courteous given that he's the author of this bug/feature. Kirk is the author of the bug/feature, David was just the committer. His response to the crash has been to send email to Kirk with the crash details. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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