Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:14:08 +0100 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystems being eaten? Message-ID: <20090312201408.GC5091@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> In-Reply-To: <gpb71c$ni9$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <gpb71c$ni9$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:42:52PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Last Friday my 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 box suffered a crash--no idea if > it panicked, I was running X11--after which all filesystems were > so badly corrupted that I had to reinstall the machine. This was > a vanilla setup, UFS2 and UFS2+S, -CURRENT about a week old at the > time. > > Yesterday it crashed again and while other filesystems survived, > /usr was again too damaged for fsck to recover it. fsck -y showed > thousands of errors in the "unexpected soft update inconsistency" > class, starting with many "partially allocated inode"s, and eventually > asked to be re-run, which produced only more of the same. I wonder > if fsck didn't cause most of the corruption itself. > > I realize this isn't exactly helpful as a bug report, but what can > I do. Something in -CURRENT from the last two weeks or so, maybe > specific to amd64, maybe not, may eat filesystems. > > Since I actually use the box and can't afford to reinstall it once > or twice a week, I've moved it to RELENG_7 for the time being. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-March/003903.html may be related. Just for now I am using: > uname -a FreeBSD wep4035 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Mar 6 18:47:22 CET 2009 root@wep4035:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > uptime 9:10PM up 5 days, 5:20, 4 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 The system is working but I'm not sure there is no corruption... FYI, Alexey.
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