background fsck, softupdates & inconsistent state on disk

[Xin LI]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:10:33PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> 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.

Hmm...  Could you please confirm that the final vnode sync has been
completed?

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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