Subject: Re: kern/21060: ufs looks like it's mighty hosed
To: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20030409T151529@wsrcc.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/10/2003 21:50:02
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:21:44PM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Same here.  Sources from Apr 5, 2003, disk is a scsi.  My symptoms
> were a hosed superblock on every ffs partition.  The superblocks at 32
> (from memory) were ok, so fsck copied those.  The superblocks got
> trashed on every reboot of that kernel.  Reverting to a Jan 17th
> kernel, and running fsck one last time fixed things.  (In all cases I
> was running an Jan 17th userland.)

Actually, that's because of an old fsck binary, which compares too
many fields in when doing a compare between the superblock and the
first spare. I warned about that in my original announcement. It's
harmless (but annoying, since the boot will drop to single user
because of a "fatal" fsck error).

The 'EBADF problem' is serious though, and I can't seem to reproduce
it myself.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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