From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 16:37:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C0C37B4C5 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00525; Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:37:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3A0B4350.CE8E39ED@urx.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:37:36 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Christopher Rued , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crash with fd0/msdos_fs/more References: <111421183@toto.iv> <14859.14056.493081.289992@guru.mired.org> <20001109155130.A11449@fw.wintelcom.net> <14859.15693.25087.413087@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein types: > > * Mike Meyer [001109 15:45] wrote: > > > Christopher Rued types: > > > > # more I\ Quit.doc > > > > panic: vm_fault fault on nofault entry addr: c58f200 > > > > << system reboots >> > > > [...] > > > > What category would this go into? `misc', `kern', `bin', `i386', > > > > other? > > > Kern. If the machine reboots when it shouldn't, the kernel's at fault. > > I don't completely agree with it, but it's hard for a kernel to > > cope with a trashed or damaged filesystem: > > While true, if this is going to be fixed it's going to be in the > kernel. So kern is the right place to file it, even if it may not be > fixed. > > > I sort of like how solaris will downgrade a mount to read-only when > > it detects on disk corruption, this should prevent any further > > corruption if it's a filesystem of driver bug, but it's not very > > safe and I'm pretty sure the default is still to panic. > > That's is a nice behavior. Some corruptions are caught, some > aren't. Filing a pr gives the maintainer a chance to see if this one > is known, and if it's not to decide how to handle it. > > > Moral of all of this is to use the "mtools" for ms-dog floppy access > > and "dd+fsck+vnconfig" for UFS floppies. There has to be more to it than that. I mounted an old msdos floppy and did a more of a text file. I only had problems when I tried to unmount it because it was write protected. I took it out, unprotected it, reinserted it and then umounted it. It didn't panic. Kent > > Good advice. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message