From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 7 17:45:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492B016A41F; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:45:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C063F43D55; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:45:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j87HjE0r010962 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:45:14 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j87HjD6P027747; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:45:14 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 90A5451226; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:45:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:45:13 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Eric Anderson Message-ID: <20050907174513.GA32771@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200509051953.22337@aldan> <20050906114055.R51625@fledge.watson.org> <200509060931.33977@aldan> <20050906144512.T75104@fledge.watson.org> <431DB382.7000904@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <431DB382.7000904@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , Mikhail Teterin , fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange case of filesystem corruption? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:45:43 -0000 --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:19:30AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > >>On Tuesday 06 September 2005 06:51 am, Robert Watson wrote: > >>=3D Have you recently experienced a system crash or hard reboot without= =20 > >>proper > >>=3D shutdown? > >> > >>According to dmesg.boot, this filesystem was flagged as "not properly= =20 > >>dismounted" back then. The machine's uptime is currently 47 days and=20 > >>no background fskcs are running, of course. > >> > >>Yours analysis is, likely, correct then... I guess, the fix should be= =20 > >>MFCed. (What about 6.0-release?) Thanks! > > > > > >The change was made in HEAD before the 6.x branch, so it's currently in= =20 > >RELENG_6. I fired off an e-mail to Kirk to ask about MFC'ing it to=20 > >RELENG_5, and will do so once I hear back, assuming he thinks there is= =20 > >no reason not to. > > > >Do you have back logs to when bgfsck was running, btw? Normally it=20 > >should correct this sort of thing, suggestion that bgfsck exited without= =20 > >correcting them, which is a little worrying. You may want to boot to=20 > >single user and fsck manually... >=20 > I thought that having background_fsck=3D"NO" in your rc.conf would make= =20 > the partition get mounted even though it is unclean, and no fsck's would= =20 > happen (I use this 'feature' right now, since doing bgfsck on a 2TB=20 > partition takes about 2 hours just to make the snapshot, which means=20 > filesystem activity is suspended for that time). AFAIK, no, this just does a regular old fg fsck. Kris --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDHycpWry0BWjoQKURAro6AKDbtwdlhFeFMkrLC6dMmAyX7NTmmgCg/Q7w jXqBhbOvhpqUueaoI9j7+7w= =O1pD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--