From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 15:00:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1F5106564A for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jwhlists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879138FC08 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so1570411lah.13 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:00:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qez/cqORr+o8/suk11k13f1UZfrtDgSOA5wmYKTkQ3Q=; b=jyx8O2nYKyCypKBGEva3t08D+mFhgDBob8peoCfLxmOwELnl48uKLP2fAJGA2V6uKQ huGDMX2QZZAkIqPyJZuYRuXAwBP7nPCIYaOOyD06vmpsuIKbfubn96UGERgVjpR4Wg2c VY467nL/yRDpKsAIlVjbm/fpog/XqU/mYelLk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.8.100 with SMTP id q4mr2027100lba.39.1326639632176; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:00:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.152.11.131 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:00:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F12CB02.4050409@cran.org.uk> References: <3BCC7D95-F0BC-447D-9828-DD5B6A07A54A@lassitu.de> <4F12CB02.4050409@cran.org.uk> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:00:32 +0000 Message-ID: From: Joe Holden To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: UFS corruption panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:00:34 -0000 Actually, that would be a safe assumption especially now that the installer rightly or wrongly defaults to a single / filesystem, but perhaps if it could be tunable via mount flags that would be sensible also... Thanks, J On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On 15/01/2012 08:12, Stefan Bethke wrote: >> >> Yes, a panic is the correct action here. =A0While I agree that it's supe= r annoying, the filesystem notices that something is *really* wrong. =A0Ins= tead of letting the problem fester and continue to corrupt data, it stops t= he 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