Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 13:37:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5R -- Filesystems getting scrambled... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950618133207.4912H-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199506181316.JAA01366@rwwa.com>
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On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Robert Withrow wrote: > Doing a ``find / -type f -print | xargs cat >/dev/null'' causes a panic > because of scrambled filesystems. > > 2.0.5R, Pentium 75Mhz, ``Sis'' [?] chipset, 24 MB memory, onboard ide, > WD caviar 1.22G drive. Not on every system. On a 486SLC 2/66 with a cyrix mathco, 4 megs of RAM, local bus EIDE and a Maxtor 540Meg drive runing 2.0.5R, it completed flawlessly. > This is obviously a showstopper problem for me, since I have no way of > knowing what specific feature of the above pipeline is causing the > scrambling, and so I have no way of knowing if some other innocent > software or bumbling user will also scramble my file systems... Nothing in that pipeline should even modify the filesystem. Check RAM, cache, and cache settings. Tom
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