ufs_putapage: bn == UFS_HOLE

2007-12-25 8:10:00

Yesterday, I wrote:

>It seems to be my week...

>

>I have a Sparc 10 clone, running Solaris 2.1, which has panicked

>twice this morning with the above message. We have seen similar

>mesages (exact wording below) on a Sparc 2 running 4.1.2.

>

>panic: ufs_putpage hole

>

Thanks to Hal Stern for a quick answer. I had added a new swap

file on the system yesterday and had incorrectly used the '-n'

option to the 'mkfile' command when creating the swap file.

Deleting the swap space, removing the file, and remaking it

without '-n' corrected the problem.

Both Hal's book (_Managing NFS and NIS_) and Mike Loudikes'

_System Performance Tuning_ explicitly warn against using the

'-n' arg when creating swap files.

(Under Solaris 2.1, swap space can be dynamically deleted with

the 'swap -d' command. Under 4.1.x, it is less convenient.)


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