On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > I don't have any "exotic" hardware myself - the article was written with > standard SATA disks as examples. > As I understand, the "consistent" message comes up when the journal is > actually used to return the filesystem to a consistent state (what would > happen after a power failure, when the filesystem is "dirty") and the > "clean" message means there was no inconsistency between the filesystem and > journal (a normat shutdown of the filesystem). If it comes up as "clean", I > wonder why fsck kicks in at all... > The only thing I can think of is the "dirty bit" is still set on the file system, so it insists on fsck'ing it...but I'm obviously fuzzy on the whole thing. Interestingly enough...I checked dmesg.boot on one of the 8.6TB machines (which is running a completely different controller...a 3Ware 9550)...and I didn't get those BIO_FLUSH errors... Again, thanks for your help! If you think of anything, please let me know...this is getting old fast since the box has hung twice this week now. --Brian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
