Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first disk, > ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the three year > warranty of the workstation as Dell techs mostly speak the Microsoft

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-27 Thread Peter Andreev
Why wouldn't you simply update your 8.1 to 8.4? 2013/7/27 Conny Andersson > Hi, > > I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first > disk, ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the three > year warranty of the workstation as Dell techs mostly speak the

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:57:07 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Yes. It'd be nice if UFS/FFS would just downgrade things to read-only > and not panic. That would be possible, but it would confuse programs and users. It's not that you could walk up to the disk drive and flip the "write protect" switch ba

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Polytropon
And here, kids, you can see the strength of open source operating system: You can see _why_ something happens. :-) On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:35:09 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 27/07/2013 19:57, David Noel wrote: > >> So the system panics in ufs_rmdir(). Maybe the filesystem is > >> corrupt? Hav

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 13:57:31 -0500, David Noel wrote: > > So the system panics in ufs_rmdir(). Maybe the filesystem is > > corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? > > fsck worked, though I had to boot from a USB image because I couldn't > get into single user.. for some odd reason. >From

where to get the release notes for 9.2

2013-07-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
There is a specific feature I need to see if it is in 9.2 or just 10 where can I find the draft release notes for 9.2? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

FusionIO - Extreme support, 9.1

2013-07-27 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I've 2 IOExtreme 80GB cards that work as a stipe yielding 160GB. These cards use exceptionally fast high quality RAM. I called support about Centos6/FreeBSD support but they said nada. The cards do work in Centos6 and I suspect they just wanted to reduce support load, etc... Does this

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Yes. It'd be nice if UFS/FFS would just downgrade things to read-only and not panic. -Adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread cpghost
On 07/27/13 20:57, David Noel wrote: >> So the system panics in ufs_rmdir(). Maybe the filesystem is >> corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? > > fsck worked, though I had to boot from a USB image because I couldn't > get into single user.. for some odd reason. > >> Even if the filesyst

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/07/2013 20:38, David Noel wrote: I was going to raise an issue when the discussion had died down to a concensus. I also don't think it's reasonable for the kernel to bomb when it encounters corruption on a disk. If you want to patch it yourself, edit sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c at around line

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
> I was going to raise an issue when the discussion had died down to a > concensus. I also don't think it's reasonable for the kernel to bomb > when it encounters corruption on a disk. > > If you want to patch it yourself, edit sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c at around > line 2791 change: > > if (

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/07/2013 19:57, David Noel wrote: So the system panics in ufs_rmdir(). Maybe the filesystem is corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? fsck worked, though I had to boot from a USB image because I couldn't get into single user.. for some odd reason. Even if the filesystem is corrup

9.2-BETA1 iso is available

2013-07-27 Thread Fbsd8
Just down loaded the 9.2-BETA1 iso. Thought others would be interested to know it is available. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
> So the system panics in ufs_rmdir(). Maybe the filesystem is > corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? fsck worked, though I had to boot from a USB image because I couldn't get into single user.. for some odd reason. > Even if the filesystem is corrupt, ufs_rmdir() shouldn't > panic(),

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
> You may want to look into running fsck(8) and its myriad of options fsck did the trick > Also make sure you have soft updates enabled on your filesystem and > preferably journaled soft updates ..pretty sure I do but I'll double check, thanks. ___ fre

FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-27 Thread Conny Andersson
Hi, I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first disk, ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the three year warranty of the workstation as Dell techs mostly speak the Microsoft language). Instead I have configured the BIOS to boot from the MBR on t

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread cpghost
On 07/27/13 14:58, David Noel wrote: >> Post the stack trace of the core and maybe someone can help you. > > panic: ufs_dirrem: Bad link count 2 on parent > cpuid = 0 > KDB: stack backtrace: > #0 0x808680fe at kdb_backtrace+0x5e > #1 0x80832cb7 at panic+0x187 > #2 0x80a700e

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Jason Lenthe
On 07/27/2013 11:30, David Noel wrote: > -- it's a laptop and I've inadvertently run the battery down to > nothing a few times in the past. All the same, it was a very strange > experience. I would not have expected a kernel panic from a simple rm > -rf! You may want to look into running fsck(8) a

Re: /usr/src for 9.2 beta?

2013-07-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:56:09 -0400, kpneal wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:30:17PM +, Walter Hurry wrote: >> I'd like to try out 9.2-BETA1 on a test box. >> >> >From where do I check out the sources please (using svn)? > > I believe you want: > svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
> I'm taking a guess here - the effective link count when it came to > removing the parent directory was only two and it should have been three > or more. This gets sanity checked this before proceeding, and panics if > it is not. Why an effective link count of three? We're talking about the > pare

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/07/2013 13:58, David Noel wrote: Post the stack trace of the core and maybe someone can help you. panic: ufs_dirrem: Bad link count 2 on parent cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace: #0 0x808680fe at kdb_backtrace+0x5e #1 0x80832cb7 at panic+0x187 #2 0x80a700e3 at ufs_rmdi

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
> Post the stack trace of the core and maybe someone can help you. panic: ufs_dirrem: Bad link count 2 on parent cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace: #0 0x808680fe at kdb_backtrace+0x5e #1 0x80832cb7 at panic+0x187 #2 0x80a700e3 at ufs_rmdir+0x1c3 #3 0x80b7d484 at VOP_RM

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
El 27/07/2013 14:16, "David Noel" escribió: > > Yes Post the stack trace of the core and maybe someone can help you. > > On 7/27/13, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > El 27/07/2013 13:49, "David Noel" escribió: > >> > >> I had a strange experience on my laptop yesterday. I was deleting a > >> dir

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
Yes On 7/27/13, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > El 27/07/2013 13:49, "David Noel" escribió: >> >> I had a strange experience on my laptop yesterday. I was deleting a >> directory and the system crashed. It spat out a message along the >> lines of "ufs_dirrem bad link count 2 on parent". I thought i

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
El 27/07/2013 13:49, "David Noel" escribió: > > I had a strange experience on my laptop yesterday. I was deleting a > directory and the system crashed. It spat out a message along the > lines of "ufs_dirrem bad link count 2 on parent". I thought it was so > strange I repeated the process several t

Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
I had a strange experience on my laptop yesterday. I was deleting a directory and the system crashed. It spat out a message along the lines of "ufs_dirrem bad link count 2 on parent". I thought it was so strange I repeated the process several times, and each time it crashed. Is this behavior EXPECT