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Date:      Mon, 06 Dec 1999 22:04:14 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mount(2) broken? 
Message-ID:  <199912070604.WAA00482@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:50:24 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912062149310.255-100000@localhost> 

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> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
> 
> > Most probably this is exactly the problem I was describing to you a
> > couple of days ago on IRC, phk.
> > 
> > The solution is to boot single user, fsck / and reboot. After that
> > things are back to normal. Even crashing the machine does not make this
> > problem reoccur.
> 
> Nah.  This is about the third time I've seen this.  I hadn't really
> gathered any useful information (and no data was lost) so I didn't bother
> to report it.  I suspect it has something to do with soft-updates however.

<aol>
Me too.
</aol>

I just manifested this after a particularly nasty crash this evening 
(about 500 outstanding buffers), but softupdates weren't active.

(It's too easy to kill the system with them enabled; there's a whole 
 realm of exploration still untouched there.)

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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