Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:28:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> Cc: "David A. Richards" <dar@illumen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ekraj@illumen.net Subject: Re: Help! - FreeBSD file system corruption Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970416112451.29831N-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970415084141.309B-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jay D. Nelson wrote: > Interesting. I installed 2.2.1-RELEASE over 2.2.1-GAMMA (circa Feb.) and > had a similar problem. I copied the new GENERIC, reedited and built a new > kernel. So far so good. The machine was a Dell box, XPS P133c, IDE, etc. > > I only installed kernel source over a full source tree from GAMMA. Seemed > reasonable at the time, but stupid in hind sight. I deleted the old > source. I'll echo. We fried the root directory pretty well on a laptop. I'm not quite sure why it happened, but we were able to recover. The other FSs checked out. > BTW -- this showed how bad IDE really is. Watching iostat with 'rm -r' > running showed it blocked most of the time. Yeah... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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