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Date:      Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:38:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        romanp@wuppy.rcs.ru, kpielorz@tdx.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Random craches under heavy(?) disk activity
Message-ID:  <199811250238.SAA00571@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981125111027.G67961@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 25, 1998 11:10:27 am"

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According to Greg Lehey:
> 
> To be fair, Kirk wasn't 100% sure it would fix the problem.  He sent
> me a fix (I was the first to report the problem), and it hasn't
> occurred since.  It doesn't mean it's completely fixed, nor that your
> problem is the same.
> 

Are you running your system with softupdates on the filesystems?

If I understand ffs_alloc.c, then ffs_dorealloc() calls ffs_blkfree()
at only one location.  And, the call to  ffs_blkfree() is conditional
on not running softupdates.

-- 
Steve

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