panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block

[Eric Anderson]

Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> 2007/10/3, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>:
>> On 2007-Oct-03 15:21:15 +0200, Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Also, I note that everytime I panic, my currently opened files are
>> reduced
>>> to 0 bytes. Is that expected?
>> It depends, are you talking about files being read or only files being
>> written?  If this is just affecting writes, then this is a side-effect
>> of the stdio buffering, together with the write-back nature of the UFS
>> buffer cache in conjunction with soft-updates: Data on disk is
>> typically about 30 seconds behind reality and the file contents will
>> always be behind the file itself.  It is quite normal for recently
>> written files (or files currently being written) to be truncated on
>> disk following a crash.
> 
> Yep, these are recently written files indeed. Usually the files I had open
> in my editor while it paniced, files that I save often.
> Oh well... I'm setting my hopes on this panic being resolved soon then :).
> Thanks for the explanation.

Can anyone provide access to the core dumps?

Eric