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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:49:16 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Boyd <David.Boyd49@twc.com>, "mckusick@mckusick.com" <mckusick@mckusick.com>
Subject:   Re: VM images for 12.0-CURRENT showing checksum failed messages
Message-ID:  <3514274.MTfVLsneXj@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20171018164022.GT55623@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <1508255864.5659.3.camel@twc.com> <1740653.LGy8gQVNSR@ralph.baldwin.cx> <20171018164022.GT55623@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 04:40:22 PM Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 09:28:40AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 03:01:55 PM Glen Barber wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 07:49:00AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 11:57:44 AM David Boyd wrote:
> > > > > The FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20171012-r324542.vmdk image displays
> > > > > many checksum failed messages when booted. (see attachment).
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think this started about 20170925.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have VirtualBox VM's running 10.4-STABLE, 11.1-STABLE and 12.0-
> > > > > CURRENT.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Only the 12.0-CURRENT image exhibits this behavior.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is easily fixed by "fsck -y /" in single-user mode during the boot
> > > > > process.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I can test any updates at almost any time.
> > > > 
> > > > I wonder if the tool creating the snapshot images wasn't updated to generate
> > > > cg checksums when creating the initial filesystem.  Glen, do you know which
> > > > tool (makefs or something else?) is used to generate the UFS filesystem
> > > > in VM images for snapshots?  (In this case it appears to be a .vmdk image)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > mkimg(1) is used.
> > 
> > Does makefs generate the UFS image fed into mkimg or does mkimg generate the
> > UFS partition itself?
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I may have understated a bit.
> 
> First, mdconfig(8) is used to create a md(4)-backed disk, onto which
> newfs(8) is run, followed by the installworld/installkernel targets.
> 
> Next, mkimg(1) is used to feed the resultant md(4)-based <format>.img
> filesystem (after umount(8)) to create the final output image.

Hmm, so I suspect you are using an older kernel, but I wonder if you are also
using an older newfs or a newer newfs?  If the newfs is the same as as the
running kernel, then this means that upgrading from a pre-cg-sum kernel to a
cg-sum kernel will have similar issues.

-- 
John Baldwin



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