Re: fsync: giving up on dirty

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:22:26PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
I got this error today, while some very heavy disk access was occurring:


Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: fsync: giving up on dirty
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: 0xffffff01bbb99a20: tag devfs, type VCHR
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 445 mountedhere 0xffffff023ee20800
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: flags ()
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: v_object 0xffffff01c34afb60 ref 0 pages 16386
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xffffff023f11d980 (pid 46)#0 0xffffffff803eeaa6 at lockmgr+0x5f6
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: #1 0xffffffff8065e8d1 at VOP_LOCK_APV+0x81
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: #2 0xffffffff8047015b at vn_lock+0x6b
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: #3 0xffffffff805719be at ffs_sync+0x1fe
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: #4 0xffffffff80472045 at vfs_write_suspend+0x95
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: #5 0xffffffff80b794a5 at g_journal_switcher+0xa55
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: #6 0xffffffff803e3cdb at fork_exit+0xbb
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: #7 0xffffffff805f39ce at fork_trampoline+0xe
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel:
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: dev label/vol11-data.journal
Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: GEOM_JOURNAL: Cannot suspend file system /vol11 (error=35).

I'm aware of this, but it is harmless. On journal switch gjournal cannot
synchronize the file system, so it will try again later. It should be
probably better logged (as a warning).

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