Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:20:38 -0200 (BRST) From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" <matheus@eternamente.info> To: "Bartosz Stec" <admin@kkip.pl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror and gstripe Message-ID: <2246ec1e726cdd6919aa19edc94853fb.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <49240915.5060201@kkip.pl> References: <76f9bb3fd8d40028f22f4585d2b8e983.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> <49240915.5060201@kkip.pl>
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On Wed, November 19, 2008 10:39 am, Bartosz Stec wrote: > Nenhum_de_Nos pisze: >> hail, >> >> I have an old AthlonXP 1700+ running 7-STABLE: >> >> FreeBSD xxx 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Nov 13 >> 23:54:59 >> BRT 2008 root@xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx i386 >> >> where I have two 750GB Seagate SATA Disks. They are divided as two >> slices, >> around the first 120GB are gathered in gmirror, and what left is in >> gstripe. so that's whats going on. if the machine locks, and fsck comes >> to >> make its job, the box just gets slower and slower till I have to reset >> it >> the hard way. to make it not lock after just 5 minutes I have to boot >> and >> umount the "arrays", and then run fsck_ufs on them. so this way I can >> have >> the box running again. >> > Did you mean that machine slows down while doing background fsck? If > yes, problem is probably related to snapshot which is created, and > background fsck is done on snapshot. > >> as I can't count on no power outage till the end of days, what can I do >> ? >> >> > You may just disable background fsck and do it manually in single user > mode in that case just by typing fsck -y. >> i just recompiled stable to make it stop this, but no go here ... >> >> this is an AthlonXP as said, running on EPoX kt600 based board, sata I >> is >> from via southbridge and 1GB of RAM. just another 40GB disk to the >> system. >> >> thanks, >> >> matheus >> > If I am correct, your problem is old known and mksnap_ffs related. > Jeremy Chadwick wrote a lot about it: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues > > Good luck. > > -- > Bartosz Stec some news: my router+file server got stuck with a usb 2.5" hdd enclosure and I had to hard reboot. when it got uo again, I got this: fsync: giving up on dirty 0xc43ec678: tag devfs, type VCHR usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 678 mountedhere 0xc4388b00 flags () v_object 0xc14291f0 ref 0 pages 2700 lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xc45e9220 (pid 1719) dev mirror/mirror0 but afaik, the files are there. so I question, is it yet safe to use gmirror for my files integrity sake ? is there anything I may be doing wrong to cause this ? what can I help to help fix this ? thanks, matheus -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be
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