Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:58:34 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: unexpected soft update inconsistency Message-ID: <20030614105834.GB504@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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Hi there, I am seeking an explanation of the following fsck(8) behavior. This box is originally (IIRC) a 4.5-RELEASE install, gradually cvsupped to a relatively recent 4.8-STABLE: roman@freepuppy ~ 1007:0 > uname -a FreeBSD freepuppy.bellavista.cz 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #2: Thu Jun 5 12:57:47 CEST 2003 root@freepuppy.bellavista.cz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEPUPPY2_5 i386 The system was dump/restored to a new disk last summer. Some time ago I switched from mbox files to maildirs as my mail store because maildrop(1) was EX_TEMPFAILing on the larger mboxes. Maildirs have fixed this problem, but entering e. g. my postfix-users@ maildir (162MB, ~34500 messages) takes way too much time: roman@freepuppy ~ 1002:0 > time mutt -nF .mail/mutt/muttrc -e 'exec quit' -f ~/Mail/lists/postfix 34458 kept, 0 deleted. mutt -nF .mail/mutt/muttrc -e 'exec quit' -f ~/Mail/lists/postfix 4.94s user 3.89s system 10% cpu 1:21.75 total roman@freepuppy ~ 1003:0 > find ~/Mail/lists/postfix -type f|wc -l 34458 roman@freepuppy ~ 1004:0 > du -hs ~/Mail/lists/postfix 162M /home/roman/Mail/lists/postfix (mutt-1.5.1i with patch-1.5.1.cd.edit_threads.9.2) Yesterday I thought: hmm, maybe there's something wrong with the filesystem, went to singleuser with `shutdown now`, ran fsck(8), and got some "unexpected soft update inconsistency" messages in my ~/Mail. The filesystem is always ok during the normal boot-time fsck run, so I'm wondering whether this is normal, or if the fs is screwed. Attached is the output of fsck(8) run in multiuser (postfix was running). roman@freepuppy ~ 1005:0 > df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 504M 49M 415M 10% / /dev/ad0s1e 72G 36G 30G 55% /usr procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc roman@freepuppy ~ 1006:0 > ls -l /var lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Sep 16 2002 /var -> /usr/var -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html
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