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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812032307510.7329-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Dec 3, 1998 11:10: 8 pm"
To: bright@hotjobs.com (Alfred Perlstein)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:22:46 -0800 (PST)
Cc: kuehn@rz.tu-clausthal.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
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According to Alfred Perlstein:
> > dev=0x20404, bno = 13, bsize = 8192, size = 8192, fs = /var
> > panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size
> > 
> > The /var filesystem does not have soft updates enabled.
> > I got a dump, but not from a debugging kernel.
> > 
> > [ current as of Dec 2 ]
> 
> Just wondering, why are people running softupdates and non-softupdates on
> the same box, or just plain not using softupdates?
> 
> I thought that it is as reliable as regular mounts and faster?  Or are
> there issues that I haven't noticed?
> 
> Or are you guys testing for the FreeBSD project?
> 

Well, FFS with sync mounts has been reliable for me  for 4 years
until this commit.

-- 
Steve

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