Re: weird swap device name
Nikos Vassiliadis <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.stable |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 1/14/26 18:42, Sulev-Madis Silber wrote: > i have seen this on 13.* once. or similar thing. i attributed it to some kind of corruption This is on 14. I thought of corruption too. > > there, i had swap device with size i didn't add, but size was as if size of some other partition on some other device > > this 3rd nonfunctional device was seemingly never used nor did i experience any visible data corruption anywhere. using zfs > > problem seemed to appear after some sata devices went off bus and quickly reappeared > > i don't know how to test this. seems like this needs fuzzing but don't know if vm would be enough > > back then, everybody said that kernel doesn't allow it. yet it somehow did > > i think i even have some swapinfo outputs saved. which i was told to be impossible. "never seen anything like this" > > maybe this time this could be fixed? I rebooted because I thought better safe than sorry. The system had no available storage to swap on. And before this "device" there was another partition showed by swapinfo. That partition was part of a zpool, not really a device available to swap on. After exporting and importing that pool, that weird named appeared. > > > > On January 14, 2026 12:47:29 PM GMT+02:00, Nikos Vassiliadis <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just noticed that swapinfo reports this: >> >> root@aurora:~ # swapinfo >> Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity >> /dev/#C:0x101 10485760 0 10485760 0% >> root@aurora:~ # >> >> I am not sure what happened. I might have added some temporary >> swap at some point. It cannot be removed. Any thoughts? >> >> >> >