>>> Can there be some weird file system inconsistency fsck doesn't spot? >> Yes. Well, almost certainly. > So, in case we experience more panics under load on monday, would it > make sense to dump/newfs/restore the file system? I.e., can there be > any inconsistencies that "survive" a dump/restore?
There certainly shouldn't be. (Well, assuming you mean "dump/newfs/restore", not "dump/rm -rf */restore".) But, of course, depending on what made things weird to begin with, it could potentially happen again, which amounts to much the same thing in practice. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
