From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 15:58:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18AAF106567A for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE37B8FC22 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:58:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so582288rvf.43 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:58:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=+JlIcYH4Y0MiF7hbjczxAIHJxnAvrOXaBL0TeaFio3c=; b=iSK1PXaaqafRKxrIKwnEpMNLcjoJqtWlz0ijVSDJhLRAS8UVyuYn49E8QW4jzUVu7t fpuhf+V6mUlw9qeaJIgUgG90h+jLewOR1eQUvYIZIbgEr8LqvlCEEFtjnDxYTYwnebXN nCb/ZAj3y7Ic0mMmc6NRoVVlky9spVmPWMSPs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=bNNqm84dLzCgT3SPnSsAKFW44grZ/rdVdZV07V8kFKAwfku5ep666YONXof15pa0eb 2DbAY49g3OqkPReQWmdpT2EGTXiXvPYJWC0em+NYbOPsgPKsKBkg7AobNjqjBpT5ftXg HRzv1aHqzNJalHtOBTYrG+P9ZKwffc1PNaa34= Received: by 10.141.180.5 with SMTP id h5mr827423rvp.240.1219939121129; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.207.5 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2b5f066d0808280858k74118385rbf49c4da292958af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:58:41 -0400 From: "Brian McCann" To: "Manolis Kiagias" In-Reply-To: <48B6C36E.4040502@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2b5f066d0808280705y3454c188v768efe46b388864b@mail.gmail.com> <2b5f066d0808280743g69c32d1rd30aee0ca276125@mail.gmail.com> <2b5f066d0808280803ibca3f61xbb167bce384f228@mail.gmail.com> <2b5f066d0808280805t4c5f7051i60d02c7396c5f06d@mail.gmail.com> <48B6C36E.4040502@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gjournal & fsck X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:58:42 -0000 On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> > > I don't have any "exotic" hardware myself - the article was written with > standard SATA disks as examples. > As I understand, the "consistent" message comes up when the journal is > actually used to return the filesystem to a consistent state (what would > happen after a power failure, when the filesystem is "dirty") and the > "clean" message means there was no inconsistency between the filesystem and > journal (a normat shutdown of the filesystem). If it comes up as "clean", I > wonder why fsck kicks in at all... > The only thing I can think of is the "dirty bit" is still set on the file system, so it insists on fsck'ing it...but I'm obviously fuzzy on the whole thing. Interestingly enough...I checked dmesg.boot on one of the 8.6TB machines (which is running a completely different controller...a 3Ware 9550)...and I didn't get those BIO_FLUSH errors... Again, thanks for your help! If you think of anything, please let me know...this is getting old fast since the box has hung twice this week now. --Brian