background fsck, softupdates & inconsistent state on disk
Marc Olzheim
marcolz at stack.nl
Mon Aug 1 15:10:36 GMT 2005
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:48:04PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi, Marc,
>
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> > Ok, this time it's worse; Trying to startup single user, gives:
> >
> > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> > start_init: trying /sbin/init
> > WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> > WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> > WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> > ...
> >
> > And it won't snap out of it...
> [...]
> > So I'm not sure what the problem was...
> >
> > > Shouldn't this be impossible without power loss ? Or is it inherent to
> > > SMP that the machine can crash on a process on CPU #0 while CPU #1 is
> > > updating disk structures ?
>
> Are you using IDE disk driver? If so, having "hw.ata.wc=0" in your
> /boot/loader.conf would help the SoftUpdates situation.
Nope, it's a SuperMicro 6013P with onboard dual ahd with 3 seagate
(yeah, I know, not a good combination) ST3146707LC disks.
After fsck telling me it's all ok, when I reboot (even after being up a
couple of minutes), I still get the same messages now.
Marc
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