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Date:      Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:48:04 +0800
From:      Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
To:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: background fsck, softupdates & inconsistent state on disk
Message-ID:  <20050801144804.GA82722@frontfree.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050801085808.GA28473@stack.nl>
References:  <20050721094533.GE52120@stack.nl> <20050801085808.GA28473@stack.nl>

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Hi, Marc,

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 ?

Are you using IDE disk driver?  If so, having "hw.ata.wc=3D0" in your
/boot/loader.conf would help the SoftUpdates situation.

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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