fsck locks up SMP system (5.3-REL)

[Marco Beishuizen]

On stardate Wed, 22 Dec 2004, the wise O. Hartmann entered:

> Dear Marco.
> Thanks. In my case, FreeBSD 5.3 dies in single user mode on nearly each disk 
> activity (it is obviously a FreeBSD 5.3-issue with
> my ASUS CUR-DLS based system).
>
> Please take a look at fsck_ffs(8) man page. There is at the end of the 
> description of the options an explanation of the lost+find facility. 
> Obviously orphaned files and directories (and in most cases those which are 
> expected to be some of them) are gathered and reconnected in lost+found. My 
> 'periodic' cron-job deletes the contents of lost+found every 7 days.
> Oliver

Well the problem didn't dissappear. I was just checking the filesystem with 
the midnight commander, and suddenly mc froze in "ufs"-state. Now I'm 
running fsck again.

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