GEOM_JOURNAL: Flush cache of concat/foo: error=19

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Geoff Fritz! 

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:49:21 -0700; Geoff Fritz wrote about 'GEOM_JOURNAL: Flush cache of concat/foo: error=19':

> I've been experiementing with a bunch of GEOM services lately, and I've got a
> really ugly patchwork of disk space that might be better off done with ZFS.

> Without going into insane detail, here's how the layers stack up:

> drives --> gmirror --> gconcat --> geli -> gjournal

> (The goal was to utilize a bunch of misc drives, have all of the used space
> have redundancy, and only need to provide a single password when the
> system boots.)

> So I've got this /dev/concat/foo.eli.journal device mounted as my root
> partition (I boot via USB stick, to test full-disk crypto), with options
> "rw,noatime,async".

> I'm seeing the error (mentioned in the subject) when I beat the tar out of the
> filesystem, followed by a healthy stack of "last message repeated...".  I'm
> currently compiling openoffice.org, which is when I first noticed the errors.

> I've been unable to locate the meaning of error "19" from searching the
> archives or the sources (a few too many levels of function calls for me to
> sort through).

> What does the error mean, is it serious, and how do I prevent it?

errno(2):

     19 ENODEV Operation not supported by device.  An attempt was made to
             apply an inappropriate function to a device, for example, trying
             to read a write-only device such as a printer.

I don't know what is the cause, but at least you could grep sources for ENODEV.

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