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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 02:59:53 -0600
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk munging problem with current solved
Message-ID:  <19980317025953.36408@mcs.net>
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On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:56:46AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> In reply to John S. Dyson who wrote:
> > I haven't read any emails or complaints yet about filesystem problems,
> > but I know that those who have tried to run -current in the last day or
> > so have had terrible problems.  The problems didn't manifest for me until
> > too late, and I ended up with hosed filesystems.  The problems were caused
> > by vtruncbuf doing bad things, and I have corrected them as quickly as
> > possible.  My machine has been down due to the creeping crud associated
> > with the flaw in the routine.
> > 
> > Things are looking much better now (for me at least), and I have committed
> > the fix.
> 
> Thankyou!!, I was THIS close to trashing my main machine yesterday....
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team

I just got another case of the same problem with a kernel that has the
believed fix in it, writing to a new filesystem.

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE at the present time.

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