From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 17:52:19 2003 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 E4F7516A4BF for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268BD43FBF for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h820qE226698; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:52:14 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: "Kevin Oberman" , current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:52:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030902003825.198B25D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20030902003825.198B25D04@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309011752.13982.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Syncer failure after fsck on all partitions 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: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:52:20 -0000 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