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Subject: Re: SMP: Background fsck deadlocks CURRENT and RELENG_5 solid
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Hi.

> > I'm currently not able to reboot a paniced or unsincedy disk without
> > doing a normal fsck. Just when the background fsck starts, the box
> > locks solid. The load at this time is not significant.
>
> You might have a corrupted fs from earlier panics.  Do a full fsck in single
> user mode and keep doing it until you have no errors (i.e., if it fixes
> anything run fsck again in a loop until you get no fixups at all).

Nope. This happens on two different SMP boxes. If background fsck comes
into play (whatever happened before is not important), the boxes lock.

Please try yourself !

Martin