Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:52:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syncer failure after fsck on all partitions Message-ID: <200309011752.13982.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030902003825.198B25D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030902003825.198B25D04@ptavv.es.net>
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On Monday 01 September 2003 05:38 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote: > This is really sort of two problems, but I'll focus on the primary > concern here and maybe the more basic (but less significant) problem > will get addressed at some point. (Or I'll PR it.) > > I have noticed that my stable system never seems to leave the > filesystems clean after a crash on CURRENT. I get a message that > background FSCK is starting in 60 seconds, but I see no indication > that it is ever run. All partitions are UFS and have soft-update. > > After I notice that re-boots are reporting all ufs partitions as > unclean, I shut down and boot standalone. I then do "fsck -y" on all > partitions. Many simply mark the partition clean with no fixes while > others do find the typical problems and fix them. > > Finally I do a reboot. No partition has ever been mounted except root > which is read-only. Syncer reports 1 or more buffers remain and > reports this until it gives up. > > After the reboot, all partitions mount cleanly and all seems normal. > > I really feel uncomfortable about this and can't understand why the > syncer should have any buffers to handle when no partition has been > mounted RW. Do I need to worry? Did you fsck from single user mode? There were problems a while back where you had to check the file system in the foreground mode. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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