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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:29:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thread.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209141228350.82711-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020914165942.S3162-100000@levais.imp.ch>

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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Martin Blapp wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I can not imagine how this fixes a softdep problem...
> 
> Could the panic lead to mem corruption ?


no, that's wy we panic.. to stop the system BEFORE
any damage occurs.
> 
> Or maybe this is different. Maybe background fsck does
> not fix all problems after a crash, so a panic can lead
> indirectly to softdep problems in some way ?
> 
> I guess the softdep problem is still here, but this condition
> get only hit if there have already been some panics.

that's not impossible.

> 
> Martin
> 
> 


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