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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:49:21 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>
To:        freebsd-stable@netscum.dk
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -stable panics with re-newfs'ing...
Message-ID:  <20000310114921.A17380@lucifer.bart.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000202123927.23374W-100000@MEOWVAX.INT.TELE.DK>; from FLUFFEE@fluffy.gets.an.analprobe.dk on Mon, Mar 10, 2036 at 07:14:44PM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000202123927.23374W-100000@MEOWVAX.INT.TELE.DK>

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-On [20000202 12:50], I am not any sort of Fluffy (FLUFFEE@fluffy.gets.an.analprobe.dk) wrote:
>I reported this a while back to both -stable and -current, as I saw
>this problem under both.  I've now investigated with some different
>hardware so it seems to be a general problem and readily repeatable.
>
>If I newfs a partition with, say, options `-b 65536 -f 16384' and then
>try to newfs it again with the defaults, *POW* (oops, left the precise
>panic message at home, it's dirty bufs)
>
>This is with -stable built a couple days ago.

There are some `issues' with the ratio between blocksize and fragment
size, at least, that is what Kirk McKusick and Peter Wemm were able to
tell me.

>Now I tried it also with -current built yesterday, and I was not able
>to produce a panic, so it appears to be fixed in -current.

That could be the patch Matthew Dillon committed.

You could try and see if that patch works under STABLE.  I am not sure
how dependant that patch was on CURRENT though.

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<asmodai@bart.nl>                      VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands
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