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Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Joe Holden <jwhlists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: UFS corruption panic
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On 15/01/2012 08:12, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Yes, a panic is the correct action here.  While I agree that it's super annoying, the filesystem notices that something is *really* wrong.  Instead of letting the problem fester and continue to corrupt data, it stops the system.

One could argue instead that for non-root filesystems the correct action 
is to stop all operations on that filesystem but let the rest of the 
system continue.

-- 
Bruce Cran