From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 28 3:28:48 2003 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 85A8337B401; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 03:28:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from MX2.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD1D43F85; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 03:28:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kalts@estpak.ee) Received: from tiiu.internal (80-235-38-150-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.38.150]) by MX2.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3037F73910; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:27:27 +0200 (EET) Received: by tiiu.internal (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B467D145BB88; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:54:32 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:54:32 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Attila Nagy Cc: Gerrit =?utf-8?B?S8O8aG4=?= , current@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems? Message-ID: <20030128125432.GB4813@tiiu.internal> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <20030127174127.GD71664@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message