From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 29 09:53:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02665 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles311.castles.com [208.214.167.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02636 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03255; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807291651.JAA03255@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Thomas David Rivers cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rob@perihelion.co.uk Subject: Re: 'daily panic' reproduction [was re: fsck errors] In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jul 1998 06:28:52 EDT." <199807291028.GAA00451@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:51:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > See below... > > "Rob McIntyre" writes: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently trying to debug a version of FreeBSD that has been > > ported onto our Helios operating system. > > After running newfs on an ide device, fsck produces errors indicating > > that some number of inodes are partially allocated and others are of > > an unknown file type (shown below). Could you tell me more about > > what these messages actually mean and maybe give me some > > advice on tracking down such file system errors during the fast file > > system creation in newfs. The first thing I would be worrying about would be whether you're suffering a subtle problem with your IDE interface; if you're hosting over the top of Helios, I presume that you're using a virtual disk emulation? Failing that, it could be that you have the Dave Rivers Memorial Problem; note that nobody has been able to reproduce his symptoms in a controlled environment so we can't actually tell what's going on. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message