Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:03:33 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Snapshots not being created... [brooks@one-eyed-alien.net: Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.] Message-ID: <20061002150333.GB2587@genius.tao.org.uk>
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--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi guys, It looks like snapshots are failing on my laptop, so background fscks don't work :/. Can someone help me get to the bottom of it please? Thanks :). Joe ----- Forwarded message from Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> ----- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:58:04 -0500 =46rom: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE. On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:10:10PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > >=20 > > > I'm not really on the ball with reading the lists now-a-days, and so > > > I've not idea whether this has been discussed already. > > >=20 > > > On my laptop running 6.2-PRERELEASE the drives always mount dirty, wh= ich > > > suggests that they are not being shutdown clean; however the machine > > > always syncs the disks and switches itself off after a 'shutdown -p > > > now', and so I'm not sure what it could be. > > >=20 > > > Has anyone else seen this? > >=20 > > I haven't seen any other reports of this. Have you tried running a > > "fsck -f" on the drives? It's possible there's a latent error that > > isn't being fixed by bgfsck. > >=20 >=20 > Closer investigation reveals that I've getting this error: >=20 > laptop# fsck -B /var > background fsck lacks a snapshot >=20 > So, that explains it. The background fsck isn't running. So, any ideas > why it isn't snapshotting? >=20 > laptop# ls -ld /var/.snap > drwxrwx--- 2 root operator 512 Oct 2 12:09 /var/.snap This message appears to be the result of fsck thinking it created a snapshot, but not actually doing so. You might try asking over on -fs. -- Brooks ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkUhKkQACgkQXVIcjOaxUBacpACg6Zj78Wgv6pmMZRh93foLaxh1 DVwAoLwJtk0rOh+SI3YGBDPj4IOHTyFW =dQRy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--
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