Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:07:26 +0000 From: Richard Smith <richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Should a corrupt floppy disk cause a panic? Message-ID: <36416ACE.44FE439B@jezebel.demon.co.uk>
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[this question was originally posted to -questions] This is question on policy. The msdosfs will panic and the system will die if you mount a floppy with a corrupt format. I have an image of such a floppy and I can crash my system every time. The error message is: panic: isa_dmacheck: no physical page present syncing disks... panic: msdosfs_lock: locking against myself ...and the system reboots. I am using 2.2.7R and have tested it on three separate systems. The man page for mount effectively says "live with it". So is this a bug or a feature? _______________________________________________________________________ Richard Smith Assistant Chief Engineer TRL Technology Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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