fsync: giving up on dirty - gjournal on 7.0-R

[David N]

2008/8/13 Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk>:
> My understanding is that its nothing to worry about.
>
> http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-stable/200609/msg00020.html
> for example, where pjd at freebsd.org who wrote gjounal says
> "It happens sometimes under load, haven't investigated yet what exactly
> is happening, but you can ignore it for now, it's harmless, it just
> means journal switch will be done a bit later."
>
> Vince
>
> David N wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE amd64 i get the following in my logs when I
>> was upgrading my ports via portmaster.
>>
>> fsync: giving up on dirty
>> 0xffffff00014745d0: tag devfs, type VCHR
>>    usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 173 mountedhere 0xffffff00013b2800
>>    flags ()
>>    v_object 0xffffff000143f1a0 ref 0 pages 2057
>>     lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xffffff0001302340 (pid 39)
>>        dev mirror/gm0s3.journal
>> GEOM_JOURNAL: Cannot suspend file system /usr (error=35).
>>
>> gm0s3.journal has a 2GB journal. Journal and data is on the same disk
>> (mirror)
>>
>> Is this something to worry about?
>>
>> Smart for the disks aren't reporting any errors. this is with short
>> tests and extended tests.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> David N
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>
>

Thank you for the info, that puts my mind to rest.

Regards
David N