From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Apr 2 12:37:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1644137B719 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@mail.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20 [10.1.1.22]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f32Jbjl36131; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:37:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f32Jc5n13611; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:38:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:38:04 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Randell Jesup Cc: Kirk McKusick , Bakul Shah , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Background Fsck Message-ID: <20010402213804.A13223@cicely20.cicely.de> References: <200103302338.PAA11228@beastie.mckusick.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rjesup@wgate.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:21:02PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Randell Jesup wrote: > "fsck -y" does not always succeed (though I agree it should). The > points I listed do not ask a question and exit regardless. You're correct > that quite a few cannot happen unless there's a bug in fsck somewhere, but > some (especially inoinfo() and ginode()) can and do happen in the case of > true corruption. One of the points where it fails if when it wants to put an inode into lost+found but fails to extend/create the directory. Unfortunately fsck -y doesn't do anything after such a situation happened. I usually ended in such situation with fsdb clearing the inode manualy and fsck -y finaly succeded. Well my expiriences were with early softupdates implementations and broken tagged firmware on a scsi drive but however this brokeness to the filesystem was introduced fsck -y wasn't able to fix. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message