gjournal crash: "error while writing data (error=6)"

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:29:30PM -0400, Charles Owens wrote:
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:23:25AM -0400, Charles Owens wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello folks,
> >>
> >> We've had a system crash, apparently related to GEOM_JOURNAL, on an i386
> >> system running 7.0-RELEASE-p11.   Here's what we could see on the screen
> >> (formatted for readability):
> >>
> >> GEOM_JOURNAL: [copy] Error while writting data (error=6) \
> >>     ad4s1a[WRITE(offset=43561402368, length=16384)]
> >> GEOM_JOURNAL: [copy] Error while writting data (error=6) \
> >>     ad4s1a[WRITE(offset=48868164096, length=16896)]
> >> GEOM_JOURNAL: Error while reading data from ad4s1a (error=6).
> >>     
> >
> > Error 6 (ENXIO, man errno(2)) might mean that ad4s1a disappeared. There
> > were no any errors earlier indicating that ad4 was disconnected or
> > similar?
> >   
> 
> Such as if someone had come by and temporarily pulled out the drive?  

It can be buggy ata controller or failing disk.

> Nothing in the logs of the sort, no.

What is exact partition size in bytes?


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