gjournal & fsck

[Brian McCann]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian McCann <bjmccann at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't
>> support BIOFLUSH?
>
> Actually yes...I meant to post them in my last message, but hit send
> too early...here's my output from boot (from dmesg.boot)
>
> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 478661671: da1 contains data.
> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 478661671: da1 contains journal.
> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal da1 clean.
> (da1:mly0:4:1:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> (da1:mly0:4:1:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
> (da1:mly0:4:1:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
> (da1:mly0:4:1:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
> (da1:mly0:4:1:0): Invalid field in CDB
> (da1:mly0:4:1:0): Unretryable error
> GEOM_JOURNAL: BIO_FLUSH not supported by da1.
> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 3065355517: da2 contains data.
> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 3065355517: da2 contains journal.
> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal da2 clean.
> (da2:mly1:4:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> (da2:mly1:4:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
> (da2:mly1:4:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
> (da2:mly1:4:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
> (da2:mly1:4:0:0): Invalid field in CDB
> (da2:mly1:4:0:0): Unretryable error
> GEOM_JOURNAL: BIO_FLUSH not supported by da2.
>
>>
>> Also, did fsck actually do something when it was started (did it find
>> anything corrupted)?
>>
> No...it didn't find anything wrong / anything to fix.  (and one of the
> file systems was being written to at the time...so at least journaling
> appears to be working)  Something else I noticed...Manolis' article
> says it should say "journal xxxx consistent"...whereas mine says
> "Journal xxxx clean".  I don't know what the differences mean, or what
> the BIO_FLUSH means...but I'm hoping you can tell me. :)
>
> Thanks again!
> --Brian
>

I should probably also mention that this is on a Mylex 2000 RAID
controller...with a RAID-5 array and using write-caching.

Thanks
--Brian