From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 3:56:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E8A14CD3 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 03:56:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA26702; Thu, 20 May 1999 03:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905201054.DAA26702@implode.root.com> To: ip@mcc.ac.uk Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc & speaking klingon In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 11:10:17 BST." <199905201010.LAA14316@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 03:54:34 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > dscheck: negative b_blkno -1047972 > >I've traced dscheck to sys/kern/subr_diskslice.c, but am none the wiser. >Clutching at straws, I do have a reasonably large swap partition on that >box: > > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/da0s1b 3932462 0 3932334 0% Interleaved > >I'm able to dd it to /dev/null without provoking complaints from dscheck, so >I guess it isn't some legacy 32-bit code which should be off_t's. Another >theory down the pan. :-( Last I heard, total swap greater than 2GB was broken. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message