operation not permitted on entropy file

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:27 AM, David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
wrote:
>
> I pretty much followed the default installation. But when fsck was
> doing its thing, I saw a lot of unexpected SU+J inconsistencies. So
> I'm a little puzzled here: Someone posted that fsck uses journaling
>

Of course fsck only uses it when journaling is enabled.


> (which seems very adventurous for something that shouldn't be needed
> often) even when the filesystem doesn't normally.


Try fsck'ing a nearly full TB FS on a production box that has had a dirty
unmount and you will begin to appreciate the adventure a bit more.


> And if I don't have
> soft updates by default, then why are they being reported by fsck?
>

This statement doesn't make sense.  Can you post the output you're seeing
along with the mount options in play?


>
> And for reference, I notice that journaling decisions need to be made
> *prior* to creating the filesystem.
>

Journaling decisions can be made basically at anytime the FS isn't mounted
or mounted ro using tunefs(1).

-- 
Adam