From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 18 13:43:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06637 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06626 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA14532; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:42:49 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA26288; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:42:48 -0600 Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:42:48 -0600 Message-Id: <199810182042.OAA26288@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and/or fsck bugs or features? In-Reply-To: <199810182023.NAA09222@usr07.primenet.com> References: <199810181800.MAA00681@harmony.village.org> <199810182023.NAA09222@usr07.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I had a couple of nasty crashes on my machine that has soft updates > > enabled. It would appear that I've also managed to get some > > interesting corruption on one of my volumes. .. > Update your fsck. > > There was a bug in fsck that had it not counting the link in / and > the links in the /lost+found directory. > > I submitted a patch a while back that fixed this bug. This patch was committed by me after Don Lewis reviewed the patch, and I concurred with the analysis made by both of you. > Alternately, you have commit priviledges, and this was discussed in > depth on the -current list a number of weeks ago (and if you are > running the most recent -current and are still seeing this, then > no one with commit priviledges acted upon the discussion, though > I know of at least two people, one of them a core member, who > participated in the discussion). I'm not a core member, but the patch is in the tree: revision 1.12 date: 1998/09/23 05:37:35; author: nate; state: Exp; lines: +1 -3 - Back out softupdate change that already existed in FreeBSD from V1.6, which caused the reference count of a directory to get doubly decremented. PR: bin/8030 Reviewed by: nate Submitted by: Don Lewis Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message