Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:45:13 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange case of filesystem corruption? Message-ID: <20050907174513.GA32771@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <431DB382.7000904@centtech.com> References: <200509051953.22337@aldan> <20050906114055.R51625@fledge.watson.org> <200509060931.33977@aldan> <20050906144512.T75104@fledge.watson.org> <431DB382.7000904@centtech.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:19:30AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > >>On Tuesday 06 September 2005 06:51 am, Robert Watson wrote: > >>= Have you recently experienced a system crash or hard reboot without > >>proper > >>= shutdown? > >> > >>According to dmesg.boot, this filesystem was flagged as "not properly > >>dismounted" back then. The machine's uptime is currently 47 days and > >>no background fskcs are running, of course. > >> > >>Yours analysis is, likely, correct then... I guess, the fix should be > >>MFCed. (What about 6.0-release?) Thanks! > > > > > >The change was made in HEAD before the 6.x branch, so it's currently in > >RELENG_6. I fired off an e-mail to Kirk to ask about MFC'ing it to > >RELENG_5, and will do so once I hear back, assuming he thinks there is > >no reason not to. > > > >Do you have back logs to when bgfsck was running, btw? Normally it > >should correct this sort of thing, suggestion that bgfsck exited without > >correcting them, which is a little worrying. You may want to boot to > >single user and fsck manually... > > I thought that having background_fsck="NO" in your rc.conf would make > the partition get mounted even though it is unclean, and no fsck's would > happen (I use this 'feature' right now, since doing bgfsck on a 2TB > partition takes about 2 hours just to make the snapshot, which means > filesystem activity is suspended for that time). AFAIK, no, this just does a regular old fg fsck. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDHycpWry0BWjoQKURAro6AKDbtwdlhFeFMkrLC6dMmAyX7NTmmgCg/Q7w jXqBhbOvhpqUueaoI9j7+7w= =O1pD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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