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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP: Background fsck deadlocks CURRENT and RELENG_5 solid
Message-ID:  <20040819190555.S66276@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040819231936.G95296@cvs.imp.ch>
References:  <20040819165405.D95296@cvs.imp.ch> <200408191107.31678.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040819231936.G95296@cvs.imp.ch>

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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Martin Blapp wrote:

> > > 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.

Can't say I 've had problems with this while debugging the IPI hangs.  And
those are rock solid.

Perhaps you're short on disk space on / and the deltas from the snapshot
take you over the edge?  Or have some sort of large I/O operation run just
after boot?

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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