From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 00:14:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA4016A401; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:14:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mail.localelinks.com (web.localelinks.com [64.39.75.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7C343D45; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:14:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-072-148-013-213.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [72.148.13.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.localelinks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1611116C; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:14:54 -0600 (CST) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 3F3FF61C39; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:14:53 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:14:53 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20060330001453.GU37096@over-yonder.net> References: <20060328155316.GA20036@peter.osted.lan> <20060328180553.GA8364@xor.obsecurity.org> <442A8D86.9010903@FreeBSD.org> <442AAE0D.2080608@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <442AAE0D.2080608@samsco.org> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11-fullermd.3 Cc: Suleiman Souhlal , current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Fun with df X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:14:55 -0000 On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:55:57AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > > So does this mean that dirty metadata buffers didn't get flushed? This (or similar) happens to me when I `mount -u` a filesystem that's had a fair amount of activity. For instance, the partition with my local CVS mirror is mounted r/o, so my cvsup script remounts it r/w. At the end, it remounts r/o, but that'll cause the errors (after which I unmount and fsck, and it blows away a number of files), so my script does a bunch of sync;sleep;sync;sleep stuff to try and avoid it (it still managed to happen from time to time). e.g: Mar 13 05:40:22 draco kernel: /bsd: update error: blocks 39992 files 250 (Of course, that only affects the partitions I *CAN* mount -u; I haven't upgraded since January to see if the problem with fs's that WOULDN'T -u went away.) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.