On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:50:02AM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: > > Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD > 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- > tion of this. > > I have two different platforms on which I'm trying to run FreeBSD 5.3. One > is an x86 SMP system (dual AMD Athlon 1900+) and the other is an Alpha DS-10. > > On the SMP system, doing anything I/O intensive (like a kernel build) quickly > corrupts the file system - I start to encounter problems like being unable to > remove entire directory trees because the system thinks that empty directories > are not *really* empty and therefore cannot be deleted. Other problems occur, > too.
Drop to single-user mode and run fsck -fy. Sometimes fsck will fail to detect disk corruption at boot time and it will cause problems later on. > On the Alpha system, I'm trying to get Xorg to work, with no success. It's quite possible no-one else has tested this. alpha is no longer a tier-1 architecture because of lack of developer interest. Kris
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