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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:57:19 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Terry R. Friedrichsen" <terry@uplift.hosp.misyshealthcare.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles
Message-ID:  <20050126195719.GC11116@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200501261250.j0QCo2tT041759@uplift.hosp.misyshealthcare.com>
References:  <200501261250.j0QCo2tT041759@uplift.hosp.misyshealthcare.com>

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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:50:02AM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote:
>=20
> Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeB=
SD
> 5.3?  I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men-
> tion of this.
>=20
> I have two different platforms on which I'm trying to run FreeBSD 5.3.  O=
ne
> is an x86 SMP system (dual AMD Athlon 1900+) and the other is an Alpha DS=
-10.
>=20
> On the SMP system, doing anything I/O intensive (like a kernel build) qui=
ckly
> corrupts the file system - I start to encounter problems like being unabl=
e to
> remove entire directory trees because the system thinks that empty direct=
ories
> are not *really* empty and therefore cannot be deleted.  Other problems o=
ccur,
> too.

Drop to single-user mode and run fsck -fy.  Sometimes fsck will fail
to detect disk corruption at boot time and it will cause problems
later on.

> On the Alpha system, I'm trying to get Xorg to work, with no success.

It's quite possible no-one else has tested this.  alpha is no longer a
tier-1 architecture because of lack of developer interest.

Kris
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