From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 14 12:40:14 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393DB37B400; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AB243E6E; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020914194007.OINE23613.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 19:40:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA84910; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:29:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Martin Blapp Cc: David Xu , Julian Elischer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thread.c In-Reply-To: <20020914165942.S3162-100000@levais.imp.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message