From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 01:53:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6150916A4CE for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:53:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from afields.ca (afields.ca [216.194.67.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DA843D2F for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:53:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: from afields.ca (localhost.afields.ca [127.0.0.1]) by afields.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i931rEAv033912; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:53:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: (from afields@localhost) by afields.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i931rEdW033911; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:53:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:53:14 -0400 From: Allan Fields To: Hannes Mehnert Message-ID: <20041003015313.GG28121@afields.ca> References: <20041002190838.GA8104@mehnert.org> <20041002205034.GC28121@afields.ca> <20041002211430.GC8104@mehnert.org> <20041002231723.GA700@mehnert.org> <20041003000410.GF28121@afields.ca> <20041003003710.GB700@mehnert.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041003003710.GB700@mehnert.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file system recovery [gbde] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 01:53:15 -0000 On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:37:10AM +0200, Hannes Mehnert wrote: > I made the backup after I booted the new kernel (and after it froze > while being mounted). It doesn't make any difference when I use the > backup (same errors). Right, in which case it's the equivalent as if part of your disk was randomly overwritten/corrupt in certain areas because you likely had some writes going over parts of the disk which were used by other files and metadata when it was first mounted and written to. I think your recovery angle is a good approach w/ the older kernel. > Best Regards, > > Hannes Mehnert -- Allan Fields, AFRSL - http://afields.ca 2D4F 6806 D307 0889 6125 C31D F745 0D72 39B4 5541