Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:50:02 -0700 (MST), Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- tion of this. Not the same problem as you, but I've been getting

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Pavlica
I have been testing 5.3 (Standard Install/Default settings) and haven't had any file system corruption. However, the I/O performance results from my testing currently show that there is a major difference between 4.11 and 5.3 (4.11 is much faster!). I have a suspicion that these issues may be

re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Terry R. Friedrichsen
Thanks for responding to my inquiry. If it fits into your testing program, try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. Twice, now, doing this on my Alpha has rendered the system unrecoverable at boot time, necessitating a reinstall.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Pavlica
That same thought ran thought my mind when I was testing. I started a process that does heavy writing and literally pulled the plug during the middle of the operation. I plugged it back in and the box came back up without a hitch. I did all my testing on x86 boxes using SCSI and IDE drives. I

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:50:02AM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- tion of this. I have two different platforms on which I'm trying to

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:42:47PM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Thanks for responding to my inquiry. If it fits into your testing program, try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. This is expected if you don't turn off

re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Terry R. Friedrichsen
I wrote: try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. to which [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: This is expected if you don't turn off write caching of the hard disks. It breaks the softupdates consistency model because data written

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:53:46PM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: I wrote: try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. to which [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: This is expected if you don't turn off write caching of the

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- tion of this. I have two different platforms on which I'm trying to run FreeBSD 5.3.