In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kevin Oberman" writes: >> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:37:45 +0100 >> From: Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Hi, >> >> when I rebooted my 5.2-BETA (kernel about 24 hours old), it gave up on >> flushing 4 dirty blocks. >> >> I had three UFS1 softdep file systems mounted on one ATA drive, one ext2 >> file system on another ATA drive and one ext2 file system on a SCSI >> drive. Both ext2 file systems had been mounted read-only, so they can't >> have had dirty blocks. >> >> At the next reboot, FreeBSD checked all three UFS file systems as they >> hadn't been umounted cleanly before. Makes me wonder if FreeBSD gave up >> on the super blocks... > >This looks like a GEOM related issue, although I am not completely sure >of this.
Why do you think it has anything to do with GEOM ? When we give up on buffers, then superblocks are likely victims, in particular when softupdates dependencies are involved. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"