From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 06:23:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA12640 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 06:23:30 -0700 Received: from rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA12631 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 06:23:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rwwa.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA01366 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 09:16:56 -0400 Message-Id: <199506181316.JAA01366@rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.0.5R -- Filesystems getting scrambled... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 09:16:55 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Doing a ``find / -type f -print | xargs cat >/dev/null'' causes a panic because of scrambled filesystems. 2.0.5R, Pentium 75Mhz, ``Sis'' [?] chipset, 24 MB memory, onboard ide, WD caviar 1.22G drive. System installs OK, comes up OK, and a manual fsck *before* doing the above looks OK. After the panic and reboot FSCK reports essentially a trashed disk (Inode 2 unknown type, etc...). This is obviously a showstopper problem for me, since I have no way of knowing what specific feature of the above pipeline is causing the scrambling, and so I have no way of knowing if some other innocent software or bumbling user will also scramble my file systems... (Aside: Does the FBSD group regression-test the OS? I have reported other problems caused by the above pipeline in the past.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 Net: witr@rwwa.COM R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway Suite 201, Lynn MA 01901 USA