panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc'
Is there a way to say "Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your
hand, keep working please-please-please?" If so, can it lead to
complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious?
Afaik you can't do this. And you shouldn't do if it'd be possible. The
file system errors you mention above should not happen under any
normal circumstances. They may happen after a crash caused by other
reasons but should get repaired by fsck. The kernel cannot continue
with such errors because the whole file system metadata cannot be
trusted anymore until repaired.
Thanks.
What I can definitely state is that after reboot nothing will get any
better. I will have same filesystem with same errors + new errors that
appeared because soft-updates were not synced, and I will have fsck
running in background. I'd prefer to just start fsck in background,
skipping that annoying reboot phase ;-) Am I willing strange?
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