It still here... panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir

[Peter Jeremy]

On Fri, 2006-Feb-17 20:39:53 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    I'm running out of ideas.  Right now my best idea is that there is
>    something broken in the code that writes out the modified 'rewound'
>    blocks.  Perhaps an old version of a buffer, with old already-reused 
>    block pointers, is being written out and then something happens to 
>    prevent the latest version from being written out.  I don't know, I'm
>    grasping at straws here.  If I could only reliably reproduce the bug
>    I would write some code to record every I/O operation done on the
>    raw device then track back to the write that created the corruption.

Is it worth setting up a ring buffer that just stores the last few
thousand I/O requests and waiting for someone to trip over the panic?
This should work if the corruption is close (in temporal terms) to
the panic.

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Peter Jeremy