In message <3702A4AC.597B77D1@causality.com>, "Neil A. Carson" writes:

>     > panic: getblk: block size invariant failed

I experienced the same panic once while copying files between a local
IDE drive and a CCD of SCSI drives using tar, no NFS involved.
I asked about the panic on port-i386 at the time (02/04/1999), but
didn't get any responses, and I haven't seen it since.