Re: kern/40957: ffs panic

[Mihai Chelaru <mihai.chelaru%NGNetworks.ro@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40957; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mihai Chelaru <mihai.chelaru%NGNetworks.ro@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, kefren%ngnetworks.ro@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/40957: ffs panic
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:56:11 +0200

 Andrew Doran wrote:
 >  On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:55:00AM +0000, kefren%ngnetworks.ro@localhost 
 > wrote:
 >  
 >  > System: NetBSD kefren.netbsd.ro 5.99.7 NetBSD 5.99.7 (Home) #16: Sat Feb 
 > 28 19:42:18 EET 2009 
 > root%kefren.netbsd.ro@localhost:/disk2/work/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/obj/Home
 >  amd64
 >  
 >  Is the source this recent or is this just when you built the kernel? There
 >  was a fix for this issue, affecting UFS2 file systems. Can you check what
 >  type of file system you are using? If it's not clear, post the output
 >  of 'dumpfs /dev/$raw_device | head'
 >   
 The source was checkout in the same day or a day before. It's indeed FFSv2.
 
 >  
 >  It's very possible that your file system was corrupted some time ago, and
 >  you only ran into it later - even though the bug had since been fixed.
 >   
 
 Could be. Indeed that filesystem was created a long time ago and I'm 
 following -current on this computer.