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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:22:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
Cc:        Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gerrit_K=C3=BChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?
Message-ID:  <20030128110546.L66869@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030128125432.GB4813@tiiu.internal>
References:  <20030127174127.GD71664@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <Pine.LNX.4.50.0301281141100.28577-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> <20030128125432.GB4813@tiiu.internal>

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Vallo Kallaste wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> wrote:
>
> > > I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some
> > > "torture-testing". When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded
> > > fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back
> > > quickly and bg fsck worked fine, except for one. I had created a large
> > > (>50GB) /export filesystem on with fsck reproducively hang.
> > See PR kern/47105.
> > Although it speaks of much larger filesystems, than your, the problem is
> > there.
> >
> > I've already written to Kirk McKusick, but it seems that he has a lot of
> > work, because I didn't get answer.
>
> I don't see it listed in 5.0-RELEASE ERRATA. Several people have now
> reported problems with background fsck and in the case Kirk as
> original author is loaded with other work I see no justification to
> not mention the brokenness of bgfsck.

I've been trying to reproduce this bug on my desktop. This machine has 2
80gb disks, one of which is dedicated with one slice. So far, after 8 hard
resets, I haven't had any problem with either the machine or bgfsck
hanging. Here's what df's output looks like:

Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    128990    83408    35264    70%    /
devfs               1        1        0   100%    /dev
/dev/ad0s1f    257998      404   236956     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1g  74757832  5774972 63002234     8%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1e    257998    21122   216238     9%    /var
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
/dev/ad1s1e  76955976 49105248 21694250    69%    /export

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >


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