Re: Odd newfs-fixable disk behaviour (was: Re: Disaster recovery ?)

From: Philip Paeps (philip+usenet_at_paeps.cx)
Date: 09/02/05 

Date: 01 Sep 2005 22:51:16 GMT

Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info> wrote:
> On 2005-08-31, Christopher Nehren scribbled these curious markings:
> > On 2005-08-31, Christopher Nehren scribbled these curious markings:
> > > I'm joining the newfs club too. Will report back with what happens.
> >
> > newfs'd the partitions, restored from backups about 10-11 GB worth of
> > data. No hiccups yet. Hopefully there won't be any. :)
>
> The system with the delinquent disk has been on all day and all night with
> nary a mention of ad2 (the delinquent disk) in the logs, with light reads on
> said disk all day. I'm beginning to think that a PR is in order if one
> hasn't been filed already.

I've just filed PR kern/85603 about this. I added you in Cc:. Perhaps you
can follow up to it with some more information. I'll point some likely
suspects to it too. :)

 - Philip 

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