From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 15 14:20:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09688 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:20:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09662 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:20:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA00590; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:49:41 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA00487; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:49:34 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981116084934.B445@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:49:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: dg@root.com, Kirk McKusick Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Today's -CURRENT dies with "ffs_blkfree: bad size" References: <199811151504.HAA01894@root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199811151504.HAA01894@root.com>; from David Greenman on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 07:04:16AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 X-Mutt-References: <199811151504.HAA01894@root.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 15 November 1998 at 7:04:16 -0800, David Greenman wrote: >>> Anybody else seen this? >> >> Greg, >> >> I *BELIEVE* this is related to davids changes that he made 2-3 days ago I >> think. Turning off a sysctl should work I just cant remember which one. >> David can tell you though. I think it has to do with non standard block >> sizes on FS's? I might be wrong. > > vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0 will disable the new code. We don't know what is > causing this yet, but if someone could get a crash dump along with a kernel > built with -g and make them available on freefall then Kirk McKusick will > investigate. Well, I have a dump and a -g kernel, but it'll take forever to get a dump to freefall. If Kirk's prepared to debug it locally, he's welcome. Otherwise be prepared for quite a delay. Kirk, let me know. The net connection here's adequate--send me a master.passwd entry if you want to do it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message