From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 5 11:05:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA15826 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:05:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA15799 Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:05:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tu22o-0003wrC; Tue, 5 Mar 96 11:05 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA04329; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:05:12 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Terry Lambert cc: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler), stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 1996 11:12:04 MST." <199603051812.LAA08681@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 19:05:10 +0000 Message-ID: <4327.826052710@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Without warning today, the recurrent collapse of -stable with "panic: > > inconsistent xxx queue" managed to trash my root file-system beyond recover y > > (/etc et al) and a substantial proportion of anything vaguely near a > > file-subsystem root directory (i.e. /var, /usr and /home are all separate > > file-systems and all were damaged to varying degrees). I presume that this > > was just particularly bad timing as there was significant activity on all o f > > them at that moment (of the order of ~60 transfers second). > > Change: > static int doasyncfree = 1; > > To: > static int doasyncfree = 1; You forgot to mention that you patented this fix ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.