On 11/24/16 08:48, Markus Hennecke wrote: > Am 24.11.2016 um 14:31 schrieb Luescher Claude: >> I have couple of OpenBSD 5.2 vms where I could use automatic file system >> repair at start. In most other OS'es I have running virtualized >> (windows, linux) it's not a problem, they automatically repair >> filesystem inconsistencies and start up but not OpenBSD. > > Is the VM hypervisor a VMWare ESX and you got the paravirtualized SCSI > controller set up? If that is the case, switch the controller to the > lsilogic parallel and the file systems will be repaired during fsck. > > The problem seems to be that the first write on the paravirtualized > controller does not end up on the virtual disk. This is the case for > OpenBSD 6.0 and later, don't know about 5.2.
it's been a problem for a long time. And a cool thing: the change won't break anything, either. Just works. Yes, lousy problem report, but I'll bet this is it. Nick.
