On Tue, 12 May 2009 08:46:44 +0000
Michael Shalayeff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:36:58AM +0200, Sebastian Rother wrote:
> > There is a logic error in the FS subsystem related to softdep.
> 
> i don't quite see the "logic error" but the situation you are
> describing seems to be more related to "IO error" generated
> from your faulty hardware.

man mount (openbsd)
--
 Instead of metadata being written immediately, it
 is written in an ordered fashion to keep the on-disk
 state of the file system consistent. 
--

It looks like a race condition because there is no space left for the
metadata. Is that even possible?

> softdeps or not this may lead to dataloss.
> perhaps you should look at yor hardware more closely.

The hardware is absolutely ok! That's the joke here..
All I did was to copy more data onto a HDD then it can handle.

> besides that anoncvs is still not up thus i have no clue
> which sources you might be running.

OpenBSD... :-) *hides*
But softdep should be somehow generic. 

Kind regards,
Sebastian

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