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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:22:21 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, bford@uop.cs.uop.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size 
Message-ID:  <199812030722.AAA12187@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <14136.912669559@zippy.cdrom.com>
References:  <199812030710.XAA59381@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <14136.912669559@zippy.cdrom.com>

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> > Although I normally appreciate your humor, this bug is not
> > funny.  Version 1.74 of vfs_cluster.c does not fix the problem,
> > and a person can totally destroy their filesystems.
> 
> It wasn't an attempt at humor - I thought he still had an older kernel
> too and thought that David's attempted fix (I say "attempted" since it
> is clearly still nuking you) would set him right.
> 
> > sysctl -w vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0
> > 
> > Is the correct response.
> 
> Why isn't this currently the default if it's as pathological as you
> say?  Has anyone actually asked David this question?  It would be
> only courteous given that he's the author of this bug/feature.

Kirk is the author of the bug/feature, David was just the committer.
His response to the crash has been to send email to Kirk with the crash
details.



Nate

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