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Date:      Wed, 8 Dec 1999 04:50:13 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mount(2) broken? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912080443390.6397-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <199912070604.WAA00482@mass.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote:

> > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > 
> > > Most probably this is exactly the problem I was describing to you a
> > > couple of days ago on IRC, phk.
> > > 
> > > The solution is to boot single user, fsck / and reboot. After that
> > > things are back to normal. Even crashing the machine does not make this
> > > problem reoccur.
> > 
> > Nah.  This is about the third time I've seen this.  I hadn't really
> > gathered any useful information (and no data was lost) so I didn't bother
> > to report it.  I suspect it has something to do with soft-updates however.
> 
> <aol>
> Me too.
> </aol>

"mount -f /" on a dirty root file system causes the clean flag to stay off
forever.  (I forgot to change the unclean flag for mount -u.)

diff -c2 ffs_vfsops.c~ ffs_vfsops.c
*** ffs_vfsops.c~	Thu Nov 25 23:27:44 1999
--- ffs_vfsops.c	Sun Dec  5 05:12:51 1999
***************
*** 218,222 ****
--- 220,226 ----
  			}
  
+ 			fs->fs_flags &= ~FS_UNCLEAN;
  			if (fs->fs_clean == 0) {
+ 				fs->fs_flags |= FS_UNCLEAN;
  				if (mp->mnt_flag & MNT_FORCE) {
  					printf(

Bruce



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