FS corruption between 8-STABLE and 7-STABLE

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 7 19:00:33 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:13:11 am Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:54 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 5:55:09 pm Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I got a strange boot failure when booting a FreeBSD 7-stable after a
> >> 8-stable kernel, with a FreeBSD 7.4 kernel:
> >>
> >> pid 100 (fsck_ufs), uid 0: exited on signal 8
> >> pid 101 (fsck_ufs), uid 0: exited on signal 8
> >> WARNING: R/W mount of / denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> >> WARNING: R/W mount of / denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> >>
> >> it would seem that going 8-STABLE change the filesystem in such a way
> >> 7-STABLE cannot be booted after.
> >>
> >> Thanks guys ...
> >
> > I boot 8 kernels on machines with a 7 world and back to a 7 kernel all the
> > time without any issues.  Did you upgrade your world to 8 and then try to boot
> > it with a 7.4 kernel?
> >
> No.

Is your 7-stable world newer than the 7.4 kernel?

-- 
John Baldwin


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