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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:13:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        bford@uop.cs.uop.edu (Bret Ford)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size
Message-ID:  <199812030713.XAA59399@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000301be1e82$2d849d00$0100a8c0@heather.my.domain> from Bret Ford at "Dec 2, 1998 10: 0: 2 pm"

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According to Bret Ford:
>     Greetings,
> 
> I've been getting kernel panic and reboot conditions under -current
> for a while now---here's my attempt at a report:
> 
> dev=0x20404, bno = 18, bsize = 8192, size = 8192, fs = /var
> panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size
> 

To work around the problem,  as root do

sysctl -w vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0

Better. Compile a kernel with options DDB and debugging symbols.
At your next crash try to get a dump.  You'll need to set
dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf

-- 
Steve

finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
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