Re: git: 076002f24d35 - main - Do comprehensive UFS/FFS superblock integrity checks when reading a superblock.

From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 23:18:19 UTC
In message <YpVPEtkzsKBpWtaC@albert.catwhisker.org>, David Wolfskill writes:
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> On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 03:53:29PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
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> > I don't think this is a filesystem problem. All my / filesystems trace=20
> > their ancestry back to the same machine decades ago. All were cloned at o=
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> > point using dump | restore. All were newfs'd at some point to update from=
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> > 8K blocks to 16K and eventually 32K blocksize, either using my USB rescue=
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> > disk or a little bit of geom_mirror musical chairs. All four machines are=
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> > consistently set up the same as each other (as much as possible consideri=
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> > different hardware and mirrors, except for the laptop which has a single=
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> > disk).
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> I'm not disagreeing with you. :-)
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> Providing the FS image (to Toomas) was a diagnostic aid: using it, he
> was able to reproduce the issue in his test-scaffolding environment, and
> was having some "quality time with gdb" before he needed to do other
> things (probably involving sleep).

Hmmm. How interesting.

Even after having newfs'd the filesystem and restoring it using a kernel 
and userland that did not have the commit in question I still had the 
problem.


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