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Date:      Mon, 1 Aug 2005 17:10:33 +0200
From:      Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To:        Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
Cc:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: background fsck, softupdates & inconsistent state on disk
Message-ID:  <20050801151033.GD39886@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20050801144804.GA82722@frontfree.net>
References:  <20050721094533.GE52120@stack.nl> <20050801085808.GA28473@stack.nl> <20050801144804.GA82722@frontfree.net>

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On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:48:04PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi, Marc,
>=20
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> > Ok, this time it's worse; Trying to startup single user, gives:
> >=20
> > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> > start_init: trying /sbin/init
> > WARNING: R/W mount of / denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> > WARNING: R/W mount of / denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> > WARNING: R/W mount of / denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> > ...
> >=20
> > And it won't snap out of it...
> [...]
> > So I'm not sure what the problem was...
> >=20
> > > Shouldn't this be impossible without power loss ? Or is it inherent to
> > > SMP that the machine can crash on a process on CPU #0 while CPU #1 is
> > > updating disk structures ?
>=20
> Are you using IDE disk driver?  If so, having "hw.ata.wc=3D0" in your
> /boot/loader.conf would help the SoftUpdates situation.

Nope, it's a SuperMicro 6013P with onboard dual ahd with 3 seagate
(yeah, I know, not a good combination) ST3146707LC disks.

After fsck telling me it's all ok, when I reboot (even after being up a
couple of minutes), I still get the same messages now.

Marc

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