From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 17:32:05 2004 Return-Path: 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 36D6816A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:32:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsmail.ro [193.231.236.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F10643D1F for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:32:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 13431 invoked by uid 89); 4 Oct 2004 17:32:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 4 Oct 2004 17:32:03 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with SMTP id CD6FC142; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:32:02 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:32:00 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20041004203200.48a0a5ce@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20041004160453.GA7705@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20041004173545.3af254c6@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20041004153257.GA30883@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041004184708.248efdd8@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20041004160453.GA7705@odin.ac.hmc.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/md0 keeps mounting on /var X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:32:05 -0000 On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:04:53 -0700 Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:47:08PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:32:57 -0700 > > Brooks Davis wrote: > >=20 > > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:35:45PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > > For some time I keep getting /dev/md0 mounting on /var as the last > > > > mount when going to multi-user. The obvious result is that all > > > > services that use /var fail to start/function properly. Since I > > > > don=B4t use it I suppose I=B4ve done something wrong with mergemast= er. > > > >=20 > > > > The only workaround I=B4ve found is to rename /boor/kernel/g_md.ko. > > > >=20 > > > > And since I just can=B4t fix this since ~ beta4 could someone point= me > > > > where to look ? > > >=20 > > > This is proably happening because your /var is failing the writability > > > test in /etc/rc.d/var. One situation I can of where this could happen > > > and you would otherwise have a valid /var would be if you have a > > > read-only NFS root and an NFS /var. > >=20 > > No, it is not the case. Does the order in fstab meter ?=20 > > /dev/ad0s3d is already mountrd on /var when md0 bumps in. > > >From memory it looks like this: > >=20 > > % mount > > /dev/ad0s3a on / (ufs, local) > > devfs on /dev (devfs, local) > > /dev/ad0s3f on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/ad0s3d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/ad0s3e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/ad0s2d on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/ad0s4 on /vol/it/xp (msdosfs, local, read-only) > > /dev/ad1s3d on /vol/it/cur/h (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/ad1s2d on /vol/it/n (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local) > > /dev/md0 on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) >=20 > Weird. Order shouldn't matter. The code in the var script is really > simple. It creates the md file system if you have varmfs=3D"YES" or if > "/bin/mkdir -p /var/.diskless" fails. Hmm, I just noticed that ru never > MFC'd the fix to add -p to that command. Do you have a /var/.diskless > on /dev/ad0s3d? If so, that's probably the problem. No varmfs=3D"YES" but indeed I have /var/.diskless; I wonder where did it came from, I don=B4t remember a crash on boot. What I do remember sometime around beta4 is mdconfig failing each next boot, so maybe that is how it got there. I=B4ll remove it and post if the problem doesn=B4t go away. Thanks, --=20 IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"