Subject: Re: NetBSD's behavior with full disk ?
To: Ricardo R. Sugawara Junior <ricardorsj@uol.com.br>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/12/2002 23:21:36
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:25:48PM -0300, Ricardo R. Sugawara Junior wrote:
> 
> 
>    Today I got a kernel panic in a server that is running a proxy 
> server for one year without glitchs (90 days mean uptime). The problem 
> was: the disk got full and when I tried to logon, by typing the first 
> character, the system stopped and I got the debugger. Unfortunatelly, I 
> couldn't write down the messages neither do the stack trace, because if 
> I didn't up the service fast, I would soon get dozens of users complaining.
> 
>    The question is: Are there any "issues" with netbsd kernel running 
> with disks full? Although I'm using it mainly because of it's quality 
> code and stability, that lockup was really gruesome. That machine is 
> pretty busy and I'm always working on it, never had such problem.

Do you use softdep ? softdep was known to have such problems on
occasions.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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