From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 18:57:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC8316A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF2643D62 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:57:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4EDFC72DC9; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:57:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF1872DBF; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:57:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:57:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Daniel Papasian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040115185559.K87098@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE: Possible bug in filesystem code? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:57:32 -0000 On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Daniel Papasian wrote: > I really hate to potentially create some distress over something that may > be very difficult to repeat, but... > > I was working on a 5.2-RELEASE system that had been improperly shut down, > and while the background process was checking/fixing the consistency of > the filesystem, I did a relatively disk-intensive process (installed a > port) and the system crashed in an apparent panic. It would help ti give the actual reproduction scenario so we can all try it :) If your filesystem is low on space I can see this happening. Background fsck creates a snapshot to do its work, and you do a whole bunch of nasty stuff on a disk with low resources (or memory?) it can blow up. Would be nice to fix, though. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org