Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:53:50 +0300 From: ODHIAMBO Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Weird DISKS behaviour on 4.8-STABLE Message-ID: <20030904065350.GA8216@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Hello people,
I have been experiencing a weird problem with 4.8-STABLE for a long time.
I was ignoring it, thinking that it was a problem with the SCSI disks or
perhaps the contoller. I changed the disks from the original Intel box
to a Compaq box and I still noticed the problem was there.
What happened is that all of a sudden, the disk would 'fill' up with
nothing! Yes, that's true. I would try to track down whatever it is
but end up with nothing. So I decide to reboot. What would then
happen is that during the reboot, the behaviour would be that akin
to that which you always see when the system was abnormally shutdown -
salvage of blocks, etc. Then as sure as day follows night, the space
is back to normal.
At some point I retired two disks, replacing them with two new ones.
Now on the same Compaq box, I am still experiencing the same symptoms.
For starters, `mount` does not report the correct disk sizes:
da0 is 17GB
da1 is 36GB
but `df -h` gives following output
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 16G 4.5G 10.0G 31% /
/dev/da1s1e 34G 17G 13G 56% /wananchi
The output of `mount` is:
wash@ns2 ('tty') ~ 129 -> mount
/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/da1s1e on /wananchi (ufs, local, soft-updates)
I am beginning to think that disk space is being freed, but the blocks
are not being reallocated/reassigned, leading to the misbehaviour. I
don't know what the correct terminology would be ;)
I am not an expert with disks though, so I would appreciate any
insight into what the cause of such a problem could be.
-Wash
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