How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

Aragon Gouveia aragon at phat.za.net
Tue Feb 19 00:10:33 UTC 2008


Hi.  Have you used growfs on your filesystem at any point in time?  The only
time I've experienced Strange Things Happening with UFS filesystems in 6.x
was after (possibly mis)using growfs on them.


Regards,
Aragon


| By Jim Bryant <freebsd at electron-tube.net>
|                                          [ 2008-02-18 06:39 +0200 ]
> One line summary:
>    Too many files in a top-level UFS-2 filesystem directory will cause 
> a panic on mount.

[snip]


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