Hi,

> > > somebody (possibly you) posted something about that.. was it only on vax,
> > > only with softdeps, only on vax, or just in general? ive only recently
> > > broken my habit of never making a silesystem >2g.... it'd suck if they
> > > werent reliable.
> >
> > Only on vax, and only tested on my 4000/60 (I don't own any other vaxen
> > (yet)).
> >
> The only thing I can think of is if the ncr chip driver has some bugs
> in it. There are almost no vax-specific code for the 5394, and the few
> lines that there is don't seem as they could cause this problem.

But the 9 gig had one big partition for more than a year without problems.
Or are you saying that some bug has just now manifested itself in newer fs
code?

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs