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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:34:27 +0200
From:      Teemu Korhonen <teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: growfs and soft updates
Message-ID:  <478E15F3.7090809@mbnet.fi>
In-Reply-To: <478DCC6C.8010605@mbnet.fi>
References:  <478DCC6C.8010605@mbnet.fi>

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Teemu Korhonen wrote:
> I'm merging my ext2-partition with my /usr by shrinking ext2 and doing 
> growfs on the free space. I did it with soft updates enabled and it 
> seemed to work until I tried to use /usr which resulted in kernel 
> panic (ffs_valloc: dup alloc). After plenty of 'fcsk -y' I got it 
> fixed while losing few random files. :( The errors were mostly related 
> to soft updates.
>
> Should soft updates be disabled before using growfs?
>

False alarm. It's all the same with soft updates disabled.. I guess 
growfs needs some work.



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