From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 14:34:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E359116A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 14:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chello080110061116.502.15.vie.surfer.at (chello080110061116.502.15.vie.surfer.at [80.110.61.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75AA743D1D for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 14:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 4711@chello.at) Received: (qmail 8302 invoked from network); 28 May 2004 21:34:18 -0000 Received: from matrix010.matrix.net (192.168.123.10) by ns.matrix.net with SMTP; 28 May 2004 21:34:18 -0000 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 23:34:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200405272230.23924.4711@chello.at> In-Reply-To: <200405272230.23924.4711@chello.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_ZB7tAMX8vBNXvUV"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405282334.17967.4711@chello.at> Subject: Re: fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 3221471004 bytes for inoinfo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 21:34:32 -0000 --Boundary-02=_ZB7tAMX8vBNXvUV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 27 May 2004 22:30, Christian Hiris wrote: > When I rebooted the machine I got a "giving up on xx buffers" message and > all filesystems marked dirty. After rebooting the system background fsck > run and left one filesystem dirty - "unexpected softupdate inconsistency". > Then the system died within 20 seconds. After that I rebooted into single > user mode started fsck manually: > [...] > > The filesystem held about 1.3 million files, softupdates enabled. > Is there any other way recover this filesystem on the fly? > > Thanks! > ch I 'solved' the problem by switching some of my harddisks to a new controlle= r=20 to eliminate the syncer problem and restored data from backups. The primary= =20 cause was a timeout of a harddisk attached to the HPT372 onboard controller= =20 on a Epox EP-8KRA2+ mainboard. =2D-=20 Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x941B6B0B=20 OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu --Boundary-02=_ZB7tAMX8vBNXvUV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAt7BZcyi/EZQbawsRAvaFAKC1a21b0xFavR1KYXlbe1wg3to/9gCgjXmo 4n3OJtfBWUzvw0z/kbwed2g= =++Pj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_ZB7tAMX8vBNXvUV--