From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 13:51:15 2003 Return-Path: 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 0898016A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ks420.kasserver.com (ks420.kasserver.com [62.141.48.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B12743FA3 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:51:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yanestra@seismic.de) Received: from golulu.seismic.de (dsl-213-023-219-078.arcor-ip.net [213.23.219.78]) (authenticated) by ks420.kasserver.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hB3LpBF24237 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:51:11 +0100 Received: from seismic.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by golulu.seismic.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BDAEB105 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:51:12 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FCE5AD0.9040105@seismic.de> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:51:12 +0100 From: "Klaus-J. Wolf" Organization: Morning County Sheepshooters User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <3FCDCC7D.5020306@ofw.fi> In-Reply-To: <3FCDCC7D.5020306@ofw.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:51:15 -0000 Dan Naumov wrote: > What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running > FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. [...] After the installation of the OS (usually > about 8-12 days of running non-stop) I start getting "Bad File > Descriptor" errors on random files all around the Maxtor drive and I > have to go to single-user mode in order to run a full fsck on the > system. After that, the system works, until in 8-12 days time even > more files get "corrupted" this way and the process has to be > repeated. Eventually, so many files are damaged that a full OS > reinstall is required. I had exactly the same experiences while using the same FreeBSD versions. The filesystems slowly died without any direct sign pointing to hardware problems. But, after having exchanged the harddisk with a newer one, the effect never occured again. k.j.