From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 29 13: 5:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FF937B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:05:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [129.250.170.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BCA43EA9 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:05:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (200-163-23-099-bsace7016.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br [200.163.23.99]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA27260; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:05:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DE7D68D.CF9ECB36@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:05:17 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wesley Morgan Cc: Steve Kargl , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harry Potter and the Disappearing Disklabel References: <20021129111139.W7939-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wesley Morgan wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:41:56AM -0500, Wesley Morgan wrote: > > > > > > I've seen one post similar to this, but not much else. I think maybe the > > > UFS2 problem had to do with Kirk's recent changes, but the disklabel > > > issue... I'm wary to reboot my machine! What in the hell could be causing > > > this? I'm tempted to point the finger at GEOM, but hate to say anything > > > like that. > > > > Are your world and kernel in sync (post-kirk commit)? > > They are now, but were not before. However I fail to see what world has to > do with disappearing disklabels between boots. Unless specifically asked > to, nothing except the kernel should ever read it (at least, I am guessing > this). Well, after that commit, UFS2 partitions on the first mount would be _changed_, to a slightly different format that ought to have a longer life. Now, I don't know if the modifications are done by kernel or userland, but out of synch kernel/world can have two results: 1) Kernel expects an UFS2 partition whose format is slightly different than what it is. 2) fsck expects an UFS2 partition whose format is slightly different than what it is. Nothing good can come out of any of these. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@linux.bsdconspiracy.net "Fundamentalist Debianites, core children of the Linuxen.... sounds like it could come from the Book of Mormon, or Tolkien on a bad day..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message