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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:45:14 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VM messed: vm_page_free panic problem
Message-ID:  <19980215234514.36406@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199802152139.OAA03239@usr01.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 09:39:57PM %2B0000
References:  <19980215132713.12891@keltia.freenix.fr> <199802152139.OAA03239@usr01.primenet.com>

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According to Terry Lambert:
> If an FS was mounted async, it could have been damaged beyond the
> ability of fsck to repair it as the result of a crash.  I do not

In this case, the panic happen before any file system is mounted (except /
but I do not mount / async).

> spend time railing against async just because I like to hear myself
> type.  I do it because async is actually dangerous to FS integrity.

I know that but have yet to lose one file since introduction of async
mounts in FreeBSD. Even with /usr/src and the CVS repository async.

> Ah.  Compression.  Disable your internal and external cache for the
> time you are booting, and see if it fixes it.  Also, do you have 48M?

No, 64 MB.

> Do you have a 3.0 installed?  You should take the kernel from the

Yes, I run CURRENT. I was just trying to recover from a stupid mistake
(mount was compiled shared because when I "cvs co'ed" outside /usr/src, the
NOSHARED option was not here) during my soft updates test.

I just tumbled on the -- now -- known problem with the current bootdisks.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Feb 14 15:42:16 CET 1998

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