From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 23:22:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11421 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:22:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11406 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01117; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:22:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id AAA12187; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:22:21 -0700 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:22:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199812030722.AAA12187@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Steve Kargl , bford@uop.cs.uop.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size In-Reply-To: <14136.912669559@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <199812030710.XAA59381@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <14136.912669559@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message