On Mon, 16 May 2005, Mihai CHELARU wrote:

> Lately my LFS disk had a lot of traffic generated by lfs_cleanerd. I observed 
> that running lfs_cleanerd -d gives me the following loop:

The current cleaner is a bit brain-damaged in this respect, but the new 
one isn't quite ready yet.  For the time being, try running lfs_cleanerd 
with "-b", so that the failure of cleaning one segment results in the 
selection of another segment for cleaning (it will keep adding segments 
until it has a segment's worth of bytes); or try it with "-n$N" where $N 
is greater than 4 (the default when invoked from mount_lfs).

Also, make sure you are using a kernel that includes revision 1.178 of 
src/sys/ufs/lfs/lfs_vfsops.c.  That revision fixes a bug that causes bad 
FINFO records to be written, which can make segments uncleanable (though 
there is no effect on the filesystem other than its cleanability).

Take care,
 						Konrad Schroder
 						perseant@hhhh.org