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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 1998 07:04:16 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Today's -CURRENT dies with "ffs_blkfree: bad size" 
Message-ID:  <199811151504.HAA01894@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Nov 1998 08:15:51 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.02.9811150813210.4788-100000@orion.webspan.net> 

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>> Anybody else seen this?
>
>Greg,
>
>I *BELIEVE* this is related to davids changes that he made 2-3 days ago I
>think. Turning off a sysctl should work I just cant remember which one.
>David can tell you though. I think it has to do with non standard block
>sizes on FS's? I might be wrong.

   vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0 will disable the new code. We don't know what is
causing this yet, but if someone could get a crash dump along with a kernel
built with -g and make them available on freefall then Kirk McKusick will
investigate.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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