Re: continuous crashing 5.99.39

[David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:41:42PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
 > > ?> More or less easy (when not on the road with only this machine ^^):
 > > ?> backup (e.g. tar), umount, newfs; restore
 > >
 > > That's not really recovering, that's starting over... :-/
 > 
 > Recovery the system :)
 > But you're right, of course.
 > 
 > If I had knew that someone else would care, I would have waited,

Well... that probably wouldn't really have served any purpose. I'd
like to know how it got corrupted, but we aren't likely to find out.
And, probably the best way to pursue my diagnosis is to intentionally
corrupt a test volume. Testing fsck on live data is usually a bad
idea...

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David A. Holland
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