From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 6 04:32:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9A5E16A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 04:32:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575CD43FA3 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 04:32:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from gamplex.bde.org (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3p2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA30397; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 23:32:23 +1100 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 23:32:22 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Arjan van Leeuwen In-Reply-To: <200312061047.48877.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Message-ID: <20031206232721.H4483@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20031126183744.GA9140@merlin.emma.line.org> <20031206151011.S1934@gamplex.bde.org> <200312061047.48877.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:32:29 -0000 On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2003 05:33, Bruce Evans wrote: > > As a workaround, unmount ext2fs file systems before rebooting. > > Unmounting most file systems before rebooting should be the default > > anyway (handled by shutdown(8) and reboot(8)), since unmounting may > > fail and vfs_unmountall() in the kernel has no good way to log errors. > > Thanks. It won't help though, as I don't have any ext2fs file systems, only > UFS. Also, my problem isn't 3 months old - I'm only seeing it since a few > weeks. Oops. I haven't seen this problem with ffs, but I only use it with old configuration options for stability and compatibility. Unmounting should still help for other file systems. Bruce