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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:53:05 +1000 (EST)
From:      Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of the following bugs
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.970827162317.22773G-100000@tornado.netspace.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970826231236.28747C-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 
> 
>   The mangled entry error generally means that the filesystem is
> corrupted.  You need to reboot and run fsck until it comes up clean.

This has been done a number of times.  And the filesystem has even re 
newfs'd a couple of times.  

Aparently its is caused by a vnode race condition.  I dont know much else 
about the bug.

> 
>   The other errors are unfamilar.  Probably memory.  I bet you don't have
> parity memory do you?

I wasn't aware that you could get Parity EDO ram.  Im not a hardware guru.

>   I use parity simms, and a motherboard that supports ECC.  It is the only
> way to go when using large memory configurations.

The only bios option I can find is:
DRAM are 64 (not 72) bits wide Data Integrity (PARITY): enabled/disabled
option.  Is this relevant?


-- mark heath - Netspace Online Systems.  http://www.netspace.net.au/
:wq




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