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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:41:36 -0500
From:      Bill Triplett <btt@nethouse.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FS corruption w/softupdates on 4.5-RC ?
Message-ID:  <20020130024136.GB1150@fourier.mat>
In-Reply-To: <20020127064250.GA333@moreton.com.au>
References:  <20020127064250.GA333@moreton.com.au>

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Hi all,

I can reproduce this using the MAKEDEV method as well as creating one
large file with something like yes > testfile.

Appended is my dmesg as well.

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:42:50PM +1000, Phil Homewood wrote:
> A system recently upgraded from a 6 month old 4.3-STABLE image
> appears to be suddenly experiencing massive FS corruption (or
> fsck is very confused when checking a readonly-mounted FS.)
> 
> I've been following what seem to be a lot of dead-ends on this,
> but seem to have tracked it down to the following specifics:
> 
> * Only softupdate filesystems appear to have the problem. I
>   first thought I saw it on a non-softupdate FS, but may have
>   been mistaken.
> 
> * 4.5-RC kernel (as of Jan 26, also reupdated today) breaks,
>   4.3-STABLE does not.
>   (Tried 4.4-REL, no breakage, but the kernel I had didn't have
>    softupdates, so inconclusive.)
> 
> * GENERIC kernel is sufficient to reproduce
> 
> * Unmounting the FS and fscking it doesn't *seem* to show
>   the problem up. fscking the filesystem after remounting
>   readonly does cause breakage. Unmounting, remounting
>   readonly, and fscking seems safe.
> 
> * dd'ing a mounted fs to another identical device (I've been
>   backing up the root fs to a twin partition like this forever)
>   and then fscking the backup device exhibits the breakage.
>   (Maybe I should change that to dump|restore, like I thought
>   I'd been doing all along :-)

**> I didn't try this.

> * The bug seems to be most easily tickled using MAKEDEV. I can
>   reproduce the problem reliably by doing:
> 
>   # newfs /dev/da0s2g
>   # tunefs -n enable /dev/da0s2g
>   # mount /dev/da0s2g /tmp
>   # cd /tmp
>   # mkdir dev
>   # cd dev
>   # cp /dev/MAKEDEV .
>   # sh MAKEDEV all
>   # cd /
>   # mount -u -r /tmp
>   # fsck /tmp
> 
> * Occasionally the fsck or (if fsck comes up clean) subsequent mount
>   will panic: so far I've seen
> 
>   panic: handle_workitem_remove: bad file delta
> 
>   softdep_deallocate_dependencies: dangling deps
>   (that one was interspersed with fsck output, so I could have got it wrong)
> 
>   and one that may have involved a dup alloc; I unfortunately didn't
>   copy it down.
>
> Attached is a copy of my dmesg and kernel config.
> 
> Any clues greatfully appreciated...

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FreeBSD 4.5-RC #0: Thu Jan 24 17:48:50 EST 2002
    root@dev.nethouse.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEV
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 501139598 Hz
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (501.14-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
  Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 335478784 (327616K bytes)
avail memory = 323174400 (315600K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02ae000.
Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc02ae09c.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdf00
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib2: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib2
isab0: <VIA 82C596B PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <VIA 82C596 ATA66 controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> at 7.2 irq 11
pci0: <ATI Mach64-GP graphics accelerator> at 15.0 irq 10
xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem 0xd4001000-0xd400107f irq 7 at device 17.0 on pci0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:03:d1:ae:8f
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pcib1: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib1
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ad0: 28629MB <WDC WD300BB-00AUA1> [58168/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a


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