Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:09:01 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: sos@FreeBSD.org Cc: julian@freefall.freebsd.org (Julian Elischer), current@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone have a clue on this bug? Message-ID: <199607232209.PAA18615@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:30:50 %2B0200." <199607232130.XAA00352@DeepCore.dk>
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>In reply to Julian Elischer who wrote: >> >> It's bitten us several times on recent -current machines.. >> >> due to some problem, a system dies.. >> (bad h/w or whatever..) >> on reboot it is discovered that some the files that were open at >> the time of the reboot have been deleted by fsck >> (i.e. they had 0 references or something) >> >> it's particulary annoying when it deletes the console or some other >> useful device.. I've mainly seen it with devices, >> but I think I have also seen directories mutating into devices >> and files doing other odd things.. > >Seems like bad hw, I havn't seen anything like this, except when I >tried out DEVFS long ago.... I've seen fsck eat things I didn't think it should have before. I never looked into fsck itself though, I just fixed the bugs in my driver that would cause hangs. 8-( >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end >.. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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