>Number: 60624
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: warning fatigue: /dev/fss0: file system not clean (fs_clean=0); please fsck(8)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 20 19:25:00 +0000 2026
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell
>Release: current, 11, 10, 9, ...
>Organization:
Acme Snapshot Cleaning, Inc.
>Environment:
>Description:
Mounting a snapshot of an ffs file system causes the following
scary warning to be sent to the console, even though there is
nothing awry:
/dev/fss0: file system not clean (fs_clean=0); please fsck(8)
This happens both with external snapshots and with persistent
internal snapshots.
>How-To-Repeat:
1. fssconfig fss0 / /
2. mount /dev/fss0 /mnt
>Fix:
Either the superblock should be written back clean, rather than
dirty, for the snapshot, or the warning should be avoided in
some other way so it doesn't lead to warning fatigue and making
fss(4) snapshots seem scarier than they are.
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