Sparse journal?
Gavin Atkinson
gavin at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 5 18:56:06 UTC 2010
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, John Baldwin wrote:
> I crashed a testbox running FreeBSD/i386 today which had SUJ enabled on its
> /var partition. It encountered the following error when trying to fsck -p
> during boot:
>
> ** SU+J Recovering /dev/ada0s1d
> ** Reading 16572416 byte journal from inode 4.
> fsck_ufs: Sparse journal inode 4.
>
> It then failed with an unexpected soft update inconsistency. du claims that
> /var/.sujournal takes up 16192 KB. This matches up assuming 8k blocks and 1
> indirect block (I used fsdb -r and dumped the block list for inode 4 and it
> does have one indirect block). Any ideas?
This should be fixed in r208241. Try disabling and re-enabling
journalling on that partition with tunefs(8) built after that revision.
Gavin
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