Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:36:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc] Message-ID: <200105151436.KAA39732@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010514202707.B93481@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200105132342.QAA21879@beastie.mckusick.com> <200105142334.QAA05923@usr06.primenet.com> <20010515115630.H59553@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010514193332.A85465@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010515120558.M59553@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010514202707.B93481@xor.obsecurity.org>
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<<On Mon, 14 May 2001 20:27:07 -0700, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> said: > unchanged), but there are exceptional cases where this is not true, > and applications will be started on a corrupted filesystem. > These exceptional cases will be detected in the background, at which If the corruption is significant and the filesystem is active, it will often (but not always) lead to a panic fairly quickly -- perhaps even before the background fsck has run. (Recall that the background fsck has to create a snapshot before it can do anything; it's possible that the process of creating the snapshot will trip over filesystem corruption and panic the system.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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