Re: kern/37955: Kernel Panic NetBSD 4.0 blkfree

["V.L. van den Berg" <vincent%mijnpostvak.in@localhost>]

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From: "V.L. van den Berg" <vincent%mijnpostvak.in@localhost>
To: Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/37955: Kernel Panic NetBSD 4.0 blkfree
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:08:40 +0100

 Hi Simon,
 
 No, it doesn't work any better with softdeps off. I've tested this 
 before, but I ran into the exact same problem.
 
 Regards,
 Vincent
 
 
 Simon Burge schreef:
 > Vincent van den Berg wrote:
 >
 >   
 >>  I needed to reboot the machine by typing "reboot" at the "db>" prompt, 
 >>  syncing the disks also hung, so I needed to perform a hard-reset.
 >>  This happened while I force fsck'd every volume (my passport drive too, 
 >>  mounted at /mnt/backup and formatted ffs2 with softdep enabled) before 
 >>  running dump! This is a production machine and it's crucial that backups 
 >>  are made.
 >>     
 >
 > Out of curiosity, does it work any better if you don't enable softdeps?
 >
 > I use rsnapshot here between two netbsd-4 machines without problems.  I
 > don't know of any specific problems with softdeps, but I don't use them
 > there.
 >
 > Cheers,
 > Simon.
 >