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From: Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
To: Jim Bryant <freebsd@electron-tube.net>
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Subject: Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs
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Hi.  Have you used growfs on your filesystem at any point in time?  The only
time I've experienced Strange Things Happening with UFS filesystems in 6.x
was after (possibly mis)using growfs on them.


Regards,
Aragon


| By Jim Bryant <freebsd@electron-tube.net>
|                                          [ 2008-02-18 06:39 +0200 ]
> One line summary:
>    Too many files in a top-level UFS-2 filesystem directory will cause 
> a panic on mount.

[snip]