Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:43:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Softupdates not preventing lengthy fsck Message-ID: <200504120143.j3C1hHv4034269@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20050411234512.GA23344@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 11 Apr, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I'm seeing the following problem: on 6.0 machines which have had a lot > of FS activity in the past but are currently quiet, an unclean reboot > will require an hour or more of fscking and will end up clearing > thousands of inodes: > > [...] > /dev/da0s1e: UNREF FILE I=269731 OWNER=root MODE=100644 > /dev/da0s1e: SIZE=8555 MTIME=Apr 18 02:29 2002 (CLEARED) > /dev/da0s1e: UNREF FILE I=269741 OWNER=root MODE=100644 > [...] > > It's as if dirty buffers aren't being written out properly, or > something. Has anyone else seen this? This looks a lot like it could be a vnode refcnt leak. Files won't get removed from the disk while they are still in use (the old unlink while open trick). Could nullfs be a factor?
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