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Date:      Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:41:17 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: Softupdates not preventing lengthy fsck
Message-ID:  <20050412144116.GA39174@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200504121201.j3CC1nZ1035643@gw.catspoiler.org>
References:  <20050412035111.GA31366@xor.obsecurity.org> <200504121201.j3CC1nZ1035643@gw.catspoiler.org>

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:01:49AM -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 11 Apr, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:43:17PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
> >> On 11 Apr, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >> > I'm seeing the following problem: on 6.0 machines which have had a l=
ot
> >> > 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:
> >> >=20
> >> > [...]
> >> > /dev/da0s1e: UNREF FILE I=3D269731  OWNER=3Droot MODE=3D100644
> >> > /dev/da0s1e: SIZE=3D8555 MTIME=3DApr 18 02:29 2002  (CLEARED)
> >>=20
> >> > /dev/da0s1e: UNREF FILE I=3D269741  OWNER=3Droot MODE=3D100644
> >> > [...]
> >> >=20
> >> > It's as if dirty buffers aren't being written out properly, or
> >> > something.  Has anyone else seen this?
> >>=20
> >> 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?
> >=20
> > Yes, I make extensive use of read-only nullfs.
> >=20
> > Kris (fsck still running)
>=20
> It would also be interesting to find out why fsck is taking so long to
> run.  I don't see anything obvious in the code.

I can take a transcript of the entire fsck next time if you like :-)
(it ran for more than 5 hours on the 24G drive and was still going
after I went to bed)

Kris
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