Re: stability and resulting file system problems

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:19:10PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I updated my -current/amd64 kernel on Friday.
> > After a short while, all file system access seems to have been
> > blocked. I could switch windows in screen, but not open new shell
> > windows. I could only open remote connections with 'ssh host bash',
> > not with 'ssh host' (which would have used bash as login shell).
> 
> I just had a problem with a new filesytem which I synced from
> one machine to another. First some files only showed up as data
> and contained only zeros.
> At that point I tried to sync the files again and got a panic:
> 
> /home/source: bad dir ino 1748105 at offset 0: mangled entry
> panic: bad dir
> fatal breakpoint trap in supervisor mode
> 
> After the reboot and a fsck I lost the 10GB in that filesystem.

That loosing part was a pilot error, due too a changed disklabel.

Bernd