Kernel crash at "softdep_deallocate_dependencies"

Kirk McKusick mckusick at mckusick.com
Fri Apr 6 17:21:34 UTC 2012


Following through on Pawel Jakub Dawidek's comments, there is no
way that the filesystem can recover when a large piece of its has
disappeared.  The panic that you are getting is because the soft
updates system realizes that allowing writes to continue on the
filesystem will cause it to be corrupted in an unrepairable way.
As it has no way to cleanly downgrade it to read-only or unmount
it, its only choice is to panic.

If you do not like this panic, you can disable soft updates using:

	tunefs -n disable <filesystem>

Absent the soft updates integrity checking, the filesystem will
carry on a good bit longer (though after a reboot it will likely
be unrecoverable even if you have put the disk back into it).

	Kirk McKusick


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