From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 07:31:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048C016A416 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:31:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300B143D70 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:31:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (gfelop@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9I7VaBE024062; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:31:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k9I7VaC5024061; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:31:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200610180731.k9I7VaC5024061@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net In-Reply-To: <20061017145946.GB68977@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:31:42 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: kernel panic mounting /tmp - 6.2-PRERELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:31:44 -0000 Brooks Davis wrote: > It's known that an appropriately corrupt file system can do > this, but the causes (there are probably several) are not yet > known. There is some speculation that the only solution is > to add checksums to all key data sections. Which means that ZFS will solve the problem, as soon as PJD has finished the port to FreeBSD. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.pl count=1 $ file test.pl test.pl: perl script text executable