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Date:      Wed, 04 Sep 1996 23:29:07 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Cc:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>, FreeBSD-hackers <FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fsck incorrectly found no errors 
Message-ID:  <199609050629.XAA02686@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 1996 12:46:31 PDT." <Pine.NEB.3.95.960904124431.436X-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> 

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>All I can say is that I have seen the exact same thing, and when it
>happens to your 20GB news partition, it sucks the big one.
>
>I crashed, rebooted, fsck'd 2x, and it crashed regularly with fs
>corruption problems.  Yet the disks check out fine.
>
>Once I newfs them, no more problems.  (Other than the loss of data).
>
>Seems to be a  problem in fsck I would think.

   Yes, I think so, too. I noticed that fsck seems to not deal with certain
types of directory corruption, for instance, that the kernel detects and
panics on. ...I had the same problem a couple of years ago that required
newfs'ing the partition to fix. I suppose I should have tried to track the
problem down further at that time, but problems like these always happen
at the worst times - when you need to get the thing working NOW and have no
time to mess with trying to fix the bug(s).

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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