Subject: root-on-RAID set always dirty (was: halt(8) regression)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2008.salmi.ch>
List: current-users
Date: 01/04/2008 03:13:08
Jukka Salmi --> current-users (2008-01-04 02:37:48 +0100):
> Hello,
>
> currently (4.99.48) `shutdown -h' seems not to work: after
>
> The operating system has halted.
> Please press any key to reboot.
>
> is printed, pressing any key does _not_ reboot the system (at least
> not those two i386 systems I tried with, using both GENERIC and
> GENERIC.NOACPI kernels). Furthermore, after powering off the system
> manually and restarting it, RAID parity is dirty.
I just noticed that the RAID1 set containing the root file system is
always dirty on system startup, no matter whether the system was
previously halted, rebooted or powered down. I see this with 4.99.48
only, i.e. 4.99.47 worked fine in this regard.
Anybody else seeing this as well?
Regards, Jukka
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