UFS corruption panic

[Joe Holden]

Actually, that would be a safe assumption especially now that the
installer rightly or wrongly defaults to a single / filesystem, but
perhaps if it could be tunable via mount flags that would be sensible
also...

Thanks,
J

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 15/01/2012 08:12, Stefan Bethke wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> --
> Bruce Cran