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To: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: vnode_pager_output: attempt to write meta-data!!! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 23:36:48 BST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 21:50:56 -0700
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>whats this mean?
>
>Jun  7 18:15:44 bagpuss /kernel: vnode_pager_output: attempt to write meta-dat
>a!!! -- 0xfffe9000(ff)
>
>This is a -current kernel from around May 26th...

   It means that somehow the metadata pages in the object came up "dirty".
This is supposed to happen. Do you know what was happening on the system
during the 15 minutes or so preceeding this? Is it repeatable?

-DG