On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Shibashish <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Warren Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>
>> Remember that there are active sessions which are in the firewall state
>> table, these sessions will continue to work regardless of your changes until
>> these sessions expired. I am no expert on the server load balancer so I am
>> not sure whether states are removed when changes are made to pool (i know
>> states are changed when there is a server that is marked as down). So
>> someone else will need to answer on that.
>>
>>
>>
> *To add, I did flush out all the states, i.e. did a "reset states". I
> missed writing this.*
>
>
>> This indicates that there was a hard reboot and the system was not cleanly
>>> shutdown due to a power failure, OS crash or similar.
>>
>>  So on the next boot a file system check took place to ensure the
>> consistency of the file system which would have fixed any problems
>> automatically.
>>
>> *Does pfSense do a fsck on reboot/boot... can you/someone please confirm.
> *
>


pfSense will do a file system check on every reboot, this is to ensure the
file system is healthy. If it is not then it will indicate this and execute
a fsck to fix the problem(s).



>
>> This would then have happened prior to the 45 days.
>>
>> *I did a touch and rm after seeing the issue and the log file. The
> filesystem was writeable.*
>


Correct - as the fsck was successful.



>
>>
>>
>>> 2. Shouldn't the webconfigurator show warnings/errors if this happens?
>>>
>>
>>
>> No since fsck fixes the file system on boot. If it didn't or could not fix
>> it, the system would not boot and drop you to a shell. You would then have
>> to manually fix it.
>>
>> *My point was that, shouldn't webconfigurator show a warning/error that
> fs is readonly and new config cannot be saved/activated.*
>



The fs was not readonly as you mentioned above that you could touch and rm.


-- 
.warren

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