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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:08:43 +0100
From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: several background fsck panics
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Thus spake Terry Lambert (tlambert2@mindspring.com):

> Disable write caching on your ATA drive.  You should be able to
> "safely" reset after that.

Good idea, thanks.  Nevertheless:  I don't think the system should
panic on background fsck's, while a manual fsck works.

Alex

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