UFS corruption panic

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Sun Jan 15 12:48:07 UTC 2012


On 15/01/2012 08:12, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Yes, a panic is the correct action here.  While I agree that it's super annoying, the filesystem notices that something is *really* wrong.  Instead of letting the problem fester and continue to corrupt data, it stops the system.

One could argue instead that for non-root filesystems the correct action 
is to stop all operations on that filesystem but let the rest of the 
system continue.

-- 
Bruce Cran


More information about the freebsd-stable mailing list