Strange case of filesystem corruption?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:19:30AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
> >On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday 06 September 2005 06:51 am, Robert Watson wrote:
> >>= Have you recently experienced a system crash or hard reboot without 
> >>proper
> >>= shutdown?
> >>
> >>According to dmesg.boot, this filesystem was flagged as "not properly 
> >>dismounted" back then. The machine's uptime is currently 47 days and 
> >>no background fskcs are running, of course.
> >>
> >>Yours analysis is, likely, correct then... I guess, the fix should be 
> >>MFCed. (What about 6.0-release?) Thanks!
> >
> >
> >The change was made in HEAD before the 6.x branch, so it's currently in 
> >RELENG_6.  I fired off an e-mail to Kirk to ask about MFC'ing it to 
> >RELENG_5, and will do so once I hear back, assuming he thinks there is 
> >no reason not to.
> >
> >Do you have back logs to when bgfsck was running, btw?  Normally it 
> >should correct this sort of thing, suggestion that bgfsck exited without 
> >correcting them, which is a little worrying.  You may want to boot to 
> >single user and fsck manually...
> 
> I thought that having background_fsck="NO" in your rc.conf would make 
> the partition get mounted even though it is unclean, and no fsck's would 
> happen (I use this 'feature' right now, since doing bgfsck on a 2TB 
> partition takes about 2 hours just to make the snapshot, which means 
> filesystem activity is suspended for that time).

AFAIK, no, this just does a regular old fg fsck.

Kris
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