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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:08:51 +1100
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
Cc:        "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block
Message-ID:  <20040305070851.GA72131@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D83D1@mail.sandvine.com>

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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:31:51AM -0500, Don Bowman wrote:

> periodically (once a day or so), i'm getting a panic
> as 'panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block'. 
[...]
> Suggestions on what I should look for or try?

Dropping to single user mode & forcing a fsck (with the -f option) should
fix this. It's a symptom of some kind of filesystem inconsistency
that soft updates isn't expecting, and that background fsck isn't trying
to detect or repair.


Tim


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