On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Arto Huusko wrote:
>
> My system is plain 1.5, Pentium 100 MHz with IDE drives. For me,
> the panic occured while dump(8)ing / (IIRC) to new drive.
>
> I'm not sure if I can reproduce this accurately. I switched softdeps
> off as soon as this happened. OTOH, I've been using softdeps on another
> machine all the time with no problems.

I've got an AMD-K6, now running 1.5.2. It's been rock-steady, but I
finally turned softdeps off after experiencing three crashes while
populating a new 60mb drive (one with "restore" and two with "mv").

My problem seemed very much like PR port-m68k/13776. The last two
panics both occurred almost as soon as I'd started the second
backround "mv". I didn't write down a backtrace, because I knew there
were already several open PR's, but that softdep_update_inodeblock()
sounds familiar.

Doing a search, today, of the PR database on "softdep" turns up quite
a few similar stories.

Frederick