Re: kern/37955: Kernel Panic NetBSD 4.0 blkfree

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/37955; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, vlvdberg%mijnpostvak.in@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/37955: Kernel Panic NetBSD 4.0 blkfree 
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:20:02 +1100

 Vincent van den Berg wrote:
 
 >  I needed to reboot the machine by typing "reboot" at the "db>" prompt, 
 >  syncing the disks also hung, so I needed to perform a hard-reset.
 >  This happened while I force fsck'd every volume (my passport drive too, 
 >  mounted at /mnt/backup and formatted ffs2 with softdep enabled) before 
 >  running dump! This is a production machine and it's crucial that backups 
 >  are made.
 
 Out of curiosity, does it work any better if you don't enable softdeps?
 
 I use rsnapshot here between two netbsd-4 machines without problems.  I
 don't know of any specific problems with softdeps, but I don't use them
 there.
 
 Cheers,
 Simon.