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Subject: Re: Corruption of UFS filesystems after using md(4)
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On Tuesday 02 November 2010 19:12:14 Bruce Cran wrote:
> I've noticed in recent months that I appear to be getting silent corruption
> of my UFS filesystems - and I think it may be linked to using md(4) or
> creating sparse files.

I've confirmed this is a UFS bug related to sparse files: "truncate -s20G f1 
&& rm f1" is enough to trigger the error and start generating .viminfo files 
that appear to be 20GB. When running fsck I get an "Invalid block count" error 
if I just reboot without removing the .viminfo file; if I do remove it, I get 
a "Partially allocated inode" error.

-- 
Bruce Cran