Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:04:37 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk munging problem with current solved Message-ID: <350E5FCD.BD352CDC@camtech.net.au> References: <199803170703.CAA08868@dyson.iquest.net> <199803170756.IAA00561@sos.freebsd.dk> <19980317025953.36408@mcs.net>
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I know you dont want to hear this, But, For all non-developers who run -CURRENT, This is one good reason for using CTM You get to hear about the serious problems from the cvs-uppers before you get the suspect CTM delta! [Me: just thinking I'm glad I haven't lost my filesystems since I dont have many backup options] Karl Denninger wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:56:46AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > In reply to John S. Dyson who wrote: > > > I haven't read any emails or complaints yet about filesystem problems, > > > but I know that those who have tried to run -current in the last day or > > > so have had terrible problems. The problems didn't manifest for me until > > > too late, and I ended up with hosed filesystems. The problems were caused > > > by vtruncbuf doing bad things, and I have corrected them as quickly as > > > possible. My machine has been down due to the creeping crud associated > > > with the flaw in the routine. > > > > > > Things are looking much better now (for me at least), and I have committed > > > the fix. > > > > Thankyou!!, I was THIS close to trashing my main machine yesterday.... > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > > I just got another case of the same problem with a kernel that has the > believed fix in it, writing to a new filesystem. > > BE CAREFUL OUT THERE at the present time. > > -- > -- > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin > http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV > | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! > Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS > Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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