site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com William Kucharski <kucharsk@mac.com> wrote on 01/19/2005 05:23:07 PM:

On Jan 19, 2005, at 2:20 AM, Carsten G Pedersen wrote:

The bigger issue is that there are all kinds of file system errors that

will cause the kernel to panic, and many of them are only fixable by

AlSoft's DiskWarrior, if at all.

Well it's certainly thought provoking that vfs_journal.c, which seems to be the culprit for me, contains nearly 60 panic calls.Surely some of these could and should be substituted by more sophisticated ways of bailing out. Also studying the exact lines of code that triggers my panic makes you wonder a bit: Getting the message "overlap of 0 is not multiple of 24" from this code doesn't really make sense - my best guess is that the 64bit integer overlap can't be correctly displayed by %d, does anybody know whether that might be so? And yes Felix - I will take your advice and file a bug - just want to gather some more information first. I'm seriously considering building a version of the kernel that stays away from journaling altogether - of course if someone else know about an easier way to avoid this code being called I'd be most interested to hear about it. Carsten