John Holland <johnbholl...@icloud.com> writes:

> I just had a kernel panic when reloading a firefox tab pointed at
> facebook. After restarting, all the filesystems had errors but /home
> was particularly bad and caused the boot to stop and prompt if I
> wanted to enter a root shell.
>
>
> I eventually got fsck to mark the /home filesystem clean but it found
>>4000 lost files that it moved to lost&found. I am not so experienced
> with this, running "file" on a few of them shows that they may be
> intact files but they have numeric names now.
>
>
> I've really been enjoying OpenBSD but I think it could really use a
> journaled filesystem. I believe I have the correct options in fstab
> for the best results:
>
> 1f08fbc2b303f0ef.k /home ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2

You don't mention what version you're running, but I would say don't run
with softdep if you prefer data safety over "performance."

It's effectively a no-op in -current IIRC. So if you're on 7.3 or
earlier, ditch it.

>
>
> I was just thinking how much I was enjoying OpenBSD compared to some
> others when this happened.
>
>
> OpenZFS? License issues? Hammer? Anything?

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