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To: davidg@root.com
cc: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: vnode_pager_output: attempt to write meta-data!!! 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 22:07:57 -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
      ^^^

   Should be ISN'T!

-DG

>during the 15 minutes or so preceeding this? Is it repeatable?
>
>-DG