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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:54:32 +0200
From:      Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To:        Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Cc:        Gerrit =?utf-8?B?S8O8aG4=?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>, current@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?
Message-ID:  <20030128125432.GB4813@tiiu.internal>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0301281141100.28577-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>
References:  <20030127174127.GD71664@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <Pine.LNX.4.50.0301281141100.28577-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> wrote:

> > I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some
> > "torture-testing". When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded
> > fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back
> > quickly and bg fsck worked fine, except for one. I had created a large
> > (>50GB) /export filesystem on with fsck reproducively hang.
> See PR kern/47105.
> Although it speaks of much larger filesystems, than your, the problem is
> there.
> 
> I've already written to Kirk McKusick, but it seems that he has a lot of
> work, because I didn't get answer.
> 
> If anybody wants to look into this problem, I can give access to the
> machine (even serial console)...

I don't see it listed in 5.0-RELEASE ERRATA. Several people have now
reported problems with background fsck and in the case Kirk as
original author is loaded with other work I see no justification to
not mention the brokenness of bgfsck.
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
kalts@estpak.ee

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