From jon at axismilton.ltd.uk Mon Sep 3 11:12:00 2018 From: jon at axismilton.ltd.uk (Jon Schneider) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 11:12:00 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] Is UFS supposed to be stable (running 11.1) ? Message-ID: <2c2dfda9-9bd2-b032-6849-a5b5612c32e7@axismilton.ltd.uk> I acquired a customer a few months ago and had to replace one of a mirror in a zpool on an otherwise perfectly behaving server. As the new disk was bigger I decided to create a (normal UFS) filesystem on the remainder for extra backups though appreciate they're not mirrored. But after a power cut it came up and choked on the fstab entry for the extra UFS partition which it claims isn't clean and needs fscking. I think the main ZFS stuff is fine. Shouldn't it get on and fsck it which it does not appear to have attempted ? I have got them to comment out the fstab line but have an even worse feeling about UFS now. A while ago I slightly broke a FreeBSD UFS virtual machine by killing its (virtual) power and got the strong impression UFS or possibly accompanying userland setup just isn't robust. Is it just me Was it at one point ? Jon From m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk Mon Sep 3 17:50:29 2018 From: m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 17:50:29 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] Is UFS supposed to be stable (running 11.1) ? In-Reply-To: <2c2dfda9-9bd2-b032-6849-a5b5612c32e7@axismilton.ltd.uk> References: <2c2dfda9-9bd2-b032-6849-a5b5612c32e7@axismilton.ltd.uk> Message-ID: On 03/09/2018 11:12, Jon Schneider wrote: > But after a power cut it came up and choked on the fstab entry for the > extra UFS partition which it claims isn't clean and needs fscking. I > think the main ZFS stuff is fine. Shouldn't it get on and fsck it which > it does not appear to have attempted ? Yes, fsck should be automatic, but as this isn't the boot partition, you should adjust the fsck-pass parameter in /etc/fstab/ -- that's the 6th field: search for fs_passno in fstab(5). Basically it just needs to be any value >= 2 Cheers, Matthew From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Fri Sep 28 23:00:26 2018 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 23:00:26 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] October's London *BSD meetup - 9/10/18 Message-ID: <54b6043d-2d7e-4d71-d916-858822ea920e@geeklan.co.uk> Hello, Next meeting will be in a couple of weeks on Tuesday the 9th, 18:30 onwards at The Hand & Shears. The Hand & Shears 1 Middle Street Cloth Fair London EC1A 7JA Tel: 020 7600 0257 http://www.thehandandshears.co.uk See you there :) Sevan