From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 22:20:48 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 E78281065670 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:20:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheusber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f18.google.com (mail-qy0-f18.google.com [209.85.221.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA868FC16 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:20:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheusber@gmail.com) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so1833200qyk.19 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:20:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:message-id :in-reply-to:references:date:subject:from:to:cc:user-agent :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority :importance:sender; bh=LoZ7a+x1KikAo+53BWNyE2Q9YifWztZ+iASG1ah4H6E=; b=uzqJ8C70vFITdzmw7jR2eWb2v19gMl8HXBkV5B5sd4mTnzhFDjDoFHBY8uVmIPY7wP cHMFTPzKwgP4lRYrywM+DcpQTKG+J4lgeFfmo4gXoxw3R1rXUtm/BlAwaSYymehbNTft 9IM0pL3tXvhYu9a3B5VEMfJcE8W50ZcOaZgE0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:in-reply-to:references:date:subject:from:to:cc :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-priority:importance:sender; b=TcW7CQPlrhQc4zp79/Q43vY6SdoOcuOBirzOwKz+KcD1UuowqkO2Ztv47iHJ3khsSY BkMSu/vBuho0XJdyowUFg2JW9dCmTUgUiQSQSZuwX/QbrpTw9qnBEA/TNENvAFXK5pLs 7FX68QlwxD5DaZUWpIO9BdZtwzAcP8xOQfhAk= Received: by 10.214.181.1 with SMTP id d1mr8302746qaf.376.1227910846345; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:20:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cygnus.homeunix.com ([189.71.32.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm3445625yxl.8.2008.11.28.14.20.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by cygnus.homeunix.com (Postfix, from userid 80) id C2F76B8210; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:20:38 -0300 (BRT) Received: from 189.71.76.245 (SquirrelMail authenticated user matheus) by cygnus.homeunix.com with HTTP; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:20:38 -0200 (BRST) Message-ID: <2246ec1e726cdd6919aa19edc94853fb.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <49240915.5060201@kkip.pl> References: <76f9bb3fd8d40028f22f4585d2b8e983.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> <49240915.5060201@kkip.pl> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:20:38 -0200 (BRST) From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" To: "Bartosz Stec" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: Nenhum_de_Nos Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror and gstripe 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: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:20:48 -0000 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