[autofs] problems with "dirty" UFS2 partitions

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:17 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartmann at walstatt.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we're running a NanoBSD based appliance which resides on a small SoC and
> utilises a mSATA SSD for logging, database storage and mail folder. The
> operating system is recent CURRENT as it is still under development.
>
> The problem ist, that from time to time, without knowing or seeing the
> reason,
> the automounted partitions become "dirty (UFS2 partitions, no ZFS dur to
> memory and performance limitations). Journaling is enbaled.
>
> When the partitions on the SSD become "dirty", logging or accessing them
> isn't
> possible anymore and for some reason I do not see any log entries reporting
> this (maybe due to the fact all logs are going also to that disk since the
> logs
> would pollute the serial console/console and the console is used for
> maintenance purposes/ssh terminal).
>
> Is it possible to - automated! - check the filesystem on bootup? As on
> ordinary
> FreeBSD systems with fstab-based filesystems, this happens due to the
> rc-init-infrastructure but autofs filesystems seem to be somehow standing
> aside
> from this procedure.
>

Can't you just list them in /etc/fstab with the noauto option, but with a
non-zero number listed in the 'pass' number column? I know nanobsd doesn't
generate things this way, but maybe it should....

Warner