FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

cronfy cronfy at sprinthost.ru
Tue Dec 8 10:45:06 UTC 2009


>>> .. but the hell why is it required to panic and kill everything
>>> that would be working happily even if something very disasterous
>>> happen to /backup partition, in example?
>>>       
>> All those errors indicate file system corruption. To protect other data
>> from getting corrupted (e.g. by invalid pointers or calculations), the
>> kernel panics.
>>     
> ...and (hopefully) reboots, determines that there were filesystem
> errors, and attempts to correct them with fsck(8)
Why isn't it possible to do the same without a reboot?



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