From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 20:57:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0FC37B546 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA34890; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:27:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:27:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum corruption? Message-ID: <20000802132733.I36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <14727.38484.478097.382875@trooper.velocet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <14727.38484.478097.382875@trooper.velocet.net>; from dgilbert@velocet.ca on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:32:36PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Please don't wrap log messages. On Tuesday, 1 August 2000 at 23:32:36 -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > I got the following messages from a 4.0-RC machine today while playing > with find on a vinum (RAID-5) partition with about 10 copies of the > results of the "make release" tree: > > Aug 2 02:02:21 news /kernel: Data modified on freelist: word 0 of object 0xc2a01000 size 4096 previous type devbuf (0x0 != 0xdeadc0de) > Aug 2 02:02:21 news /kernel: Data modified on freelist: word 0 of object 0xc2a01000 size 4096 previous type devbuf (0x0 != 0xdeadc0de) > Aug 2 02:03:38 news /kernel: Data modified on freelist: word 9 of object 0xc315a000 size 8192 previous type devbuf (0x0 != 0xdeadc0de) > Aug 2 02:03:38 news /kernel: Data modified on freelist: word 9 of object 0xc315a000 size 8192 previous type devbuf (0x0 != 0xdeadc0de) > > ... and that doesn't sound very good. No, indeed. > Soft updates is on, in this case. There's nothing in the message which shows where this problem is occurring. We'd really need a dump. > One thing I've noticed is that I often have to "rebuildparity" on > the system. I had a busy tar process running when I halted the > system last ... and it's come up with a disk that fails vinum > checkparity. Yes, there was a problem there. Upgrade to 4.1. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message