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On 4 Jun 2010, at 14:55, John Baldwin wrote:

> I crashed a testbox running FreeBSD/i386 today which had SUJ enabled =
on its=20
> /var partition.  It encountered the following error when trying to =
fsck -p=20
> during boot:
>=20
> ** SU+J Recovering /dev/ada0s1d
> ** Reading 16572416 byte journal from inode 4.
> fsck_ufs: Sparse journal inode 4.
>=20
> It then failed with an unexpected soft update inconsistency.  du =
claims that=20
> /var/.sujournal takes up 16192 KB.  This matches up assuming 8k blocks =
and 1=20
> indirect block (I used fsdb -r and dumped the block list for inode 4 =
and it=20
> does have one indirect block).  Any ideas?

I had this too on /var. The workaround was to disable SUJ on my /var =
which only has 2GB.

BTW, every time I booted, this error would show up.

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo