Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:58:36 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic mounting /tmp - 6.2-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <20061017225836.GB73392@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20061018084439.6451312c@localhost> References: <20061018002558.3a2bcdf6@localhost> <20061017145946.GB68977@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20061018071155.4331765a@localhost> <20061017223350.GA73392@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20061018084439.6451312c@localhost>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:44:39AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:33:50 -0500 > Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > > > > Gotcha - i thought as much... i hoped a dump -0 would save enough info > > > though. I just needed to have /tmp back in place asap.... > > > > > > i'll keep the files around for a week or so in case something comes up. > > > > Good thought, but anything short of "dd if=/dev/<tmpdevices> > > of=/path/to/some/location" probably won't preserve the corrupt bits. > > Think of dump as a version of tar that also knows how to read file > > systems directly. It only preserves files and their contents not the > > actual file system bits on the disk > > Yes, I realise that now, it was late and I wasn't thinking too straight > obviously. > > BTW, the mount in 6.1-RELEASE CD had no issue at all mounting the filesystem.. > dump I used was 6.1-RELEASE too . would have been user land app related, or > actual UFS kernel code that made the difference? That's somewhat distrubing. That sounds like a change to the UFS code somehow made things more fragile, though it could be an access pattern issue of some sort. -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFNWAcXY6L6fI4GtQRAmszAJ9oXZ6YvzkRLnfk1UtOC/fm3+EFFwCfURDw v637FB2NTvPJ4GOm5lCEGK8= =AgDn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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