Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:42:02 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: [PANIC] ufs_dirbad: bad dir Message-ID: <20050926224202.GA39901@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0509261515310.26869@barf.ugcs.caltech.edu> References: <20050926152952.GA1670@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050926160808.GB1649@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050926180615.GA61075@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.53.0509261515310.26869@barf.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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--8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:17:36PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote: > And I have mentioned that I have it on authority from Doug White that this > panic is an indicator of hardware failure. >=20 > Do you have some reason to believe that Doug is wrong? >=20 > again for reference: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-November/042704.h= tml Of course I can't rule out once-off spurious hardware errors from e.g. cosmic rays, but it's certainly not indicative of an ongoing hardware problem on my machines. I do kill disks every few months, but those have their own signature (e.g. ATA driver errors). Kris --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDOHk6Wry0BWjoQKURAofYAJ9waJdRrBaO0++0Vqxxci0J+IO73wCgm/Ho 5f2ndepcLhQH+apEzmCcJXA= =Aj8t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--
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