panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block

[Tim Bishop]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:40:04PM +0200, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> > are softupdates on ?
> >
> > Yes. Turning them off seems to fix the problem (fingers crossed - I only
> > turned it off this morning, didn't have a panic yet)
> 
> After working for a whole day without softupdates, I can say that turning
> them off at least causes less panics to happen than with them turned on,
> maybe they even don't happen at all without softupdates; I haven't had a
> panic all day, while I have one every few hours with softupdates turned on.

I've been running for the best part of a day now with softupdates turned
off and so far no panics. I'm running tinderbox on the host, and it
would quite reliably crash it before.

Of course it's hard to say if this has fixed the problem... maybe it
doesn't happen as often, or maybe my data is being slowly chewed up
instead ;-)

Tim.

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