From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 13:04:59 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 8999F1065672 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:04:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheusber@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A028FC0A for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheusber@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so396347qwb.7 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:58 -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 :date:subject:from:to:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:importance:sender; bh=0q4YeMpf+4adnwbd22y3Uf6KSNUKConozvlCKteWSDw=; b=Cb6A4Ral/k2vUN2mScSOTzO6enTW2NM83iM4Uaq9eAW1S40Bhb9dwXpZdy4JTsQccq Hha1KFnzr+FO0pxwdmSByfxAfimN9q6HVcm2Gm8M1EfizpJAwTiNQVTmxvo8Jk6WzXNg I1UT7dNqdVSZ74GnUxLzKqnq6i7yCBTO4xL/s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:subject:from:to:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:importance:sender; b=mQKjYkNVhUlBgYdOxVPkls5u+68AWGOh+44UFC3hcj8aInQluu1sdh1grEJ6z5o9U+ 6PCh2TN64XYA90aVxD0Gs5WfvKl2P/sN9hkigru6hZs2sv6BQvr78wKjC+BCRbmk8aot 6yVeT9MVlVeUNd8uVkEnwisYaIcKsP0aalABg= Received: by 10.214.79.5 with SMTP id c5mr8419809qab.251.1227963898279; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from cygnus.homeunix.com ([189.71.32.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm4727963yxl.8.2008.11.29.05.04.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by cygnus.homeunix.com (Postfix, from userid 80) id 29C7FB8210; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:04:52 -0300 (BRT) Received: from 10.1.1.80 (SquirrelMail authenticated user matheus) by cygnus.homeunix.com with HTTP; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:04:52 -0200 (BRST) Message-ID: <06f42c950f38518dd085f07270d8f75e.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:04:52 -0200 (BRST) From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 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: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:04:59 -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