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Date:      Fri, 28 May 2004 23:34:03 +0200
From:      Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 3221471004 bytes for inoinfo
Message-ID:  <200405282334.17967.4711@chello.at>
In-Reply-To: <200405272230.23924.4711@chello.at>
References:  <200405272230.23924.4711@chello.at>

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On Thursday 27 May 2004 22:30, Christian Hiris wrote:
> When I rebooted the machine I got a "giving up on xx buffers" message and
> all filesystems marked dirty. After rebooting the system background fsck
> run and left one filesystem dirty - "unexpected softupdate inconsistency".
> Then the system died within 20 seconds. After that I rebooted into single
> user mode started fsck manually:
>
[...]
>
> The filesystem held about 1.3 million files, softupdates enabled.
> Is there any other way recover this filesystem on the fly?
>
> Thanks!
> ch

I 'solved' the problem by switching some of my harddisks to a new controlle=
r=20
to eliminate the syncer problem and restored data from backups. The primary=
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cause was a timeout of a harddisk attached to the HPT372 onboard controller=
=20
on a Epox EP-8KRA2+ mainboard.

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