On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Peter J. Braam wrote:

> Hi Dietmar,
> 
> I'll give this some thought - something in the recovery scheme is not
> totally OK if this is happening.
> 
>  Peter
> 

Was this perchance running on a big-endian (ppc, specfically) machine?

There's an endianess bug in the 5.2.4 release that causes the 
12:24:36 f_icreate: bitmap free at 4126, inode 4127 exists!

error after awhile. Jan Harkes came up with a fix for it.

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dietmar_at_tin-lizzy.bi.devcon.net
> > [mailto:dietmar_at_tin-lizzy.bi.devcon.net]On Behalf Of Dietmar Goldbeck
> > Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 6:00 AM
> > To: codalist_at_TELEMANN.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
> > Subject: Coda and fsck/salvage
> >
> >
> >
> >   Hello,
> >
> > we are evaluating Coda here and i have a problem.
> > I had a server running and two clients actively writing files.
> >
> > To check crash recovery, i powered down the server. Now the volume
> > is damaged and SrvLog looks:
> >
> > 12:24:36 Marking as BARREN
> > 12:24:36 Vnode (8000002.48a2.31f5): length incorrect; can't happen!
> > 12:24:36 Marking as BARREN
> > 12:24:36 Vnode 0x8000002.48a4.31f6 incorrect inode - Correcting
> >
> > 12:24:36 f_icreate: bitmap free at 4126, inode 4127 exists!
> >
> > SrvErr:
> >
> > could not open key 2 file: No such file or directory
> > 12:24:36 f_icreate: bitmap free at 4126, inode 4127 exists!
> >
> > Assertion failed: 0, file
> > "/usr/src/debian/coda-5.2.7/coda-src/partition/ftreeifs.c", line 311
> > Sleeping forever.  You may use gdb to attach to process
> > 1029.root_at_platin:/vice/s
> >
> > I had a normal Linux fsck checking the /vicepa partition at bootup,
> > before starting codasrv.
> > Is this wrong? I thought the free block bitmaps would go bad
> > without e2fsck.
> > Are there any other tools to check the coda volume?
> >
> >   regards
> >      Dietmar Goldbeck
> >
> > --
> >  Alles Gute / best wishes
> >      Dietmar Goldbeck                E-Mail: dietmar.goldbeck_at_acm.org
> > Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western
> > Civilization?  Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
> >
>