From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 20:10:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F979106566C for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847458FC1A for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3LKAlhN033392; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:10:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2E79FB829; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:10:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:10:47 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Willy Offermans Message-ID: <20080421201047.GB6884@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Willy Offermans , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20080421190403.GA4625@wiz.vpn.offrom.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080421190403.GA4625@wiz.vpn.offrom.nl> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: g_vfs_done error third part--PLEASE HELP! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:10:50 -0000 --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Willy Offermans wrote: > Dear FreeBSD friends, >=20 > It is already the third time that I report this error. Can someone help > me in solving this issue? Probably the reason that you hear so little is that you provide so little information. Most of us are not clairvoyant. =20 > Over and over again and always after heavy disk I/O I see the following > errors in the log files. If I force ar0s1g to unmount the machine > spontaneously reboots. Nothing seriously seems to be damaged by this > act, but anyway I cannot afford something bad happening to this > production machine. Why would you force an unmount? > Apr 18 20:02:19 sun kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1g[WRITE(offset=3D2907250688= 00, length=3D4096)]error =3D 5 >=20 > I have no clue what the errors mean, since offsets of 290725068800, > 290725072896, and 290725074944 seem to be ridiculous. Does anybody=20 > have a clue what is going on? For starters, how big is ar0s1g? If the offset is in bytes, it is around 270 GB, which is not that unusual in this day and age. > I'm using FreeBSD 7.0, but found the error being reported before with > previous versions of FreeBSD. I can and will provide more details on > demand. What does 'df' say? Did you notice any file corruption in the filesystem on ar0s1g? Unmount the filesystem and run fsck(8) on it. Does it report any errors? > Any hints are very much appreciated. Did you manage to create a partition larger than the disk is (using newfs's -s switch)? In that case it could be that you're trying to write past the end of the device. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgM9McACgkQEnfvsMMhpyV/3QCfeTi2ZjE2RbC84FehQExfpwEA SvUAnjWvp7OegNBUEx7eo5rMNb6T6TBn =fxXY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0--