Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 15:04:46 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata) Message-ID: <m365guhwjl.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20031206232721.H4483@gamplex.bde.org> (Bruce Evans's message of "Sat, 6 Dec 2003 23:32:22 %2B1100 (EST)") References: <20031126183744.GA9140@merlin.emma.line.org> <20031206151011.S1934@gamplex.bde.org> <200312061047.48877.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20031206232721.H4483@gamplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes: > 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. Makes me wonder what FreeBSD does on shutdown if not umount and how fragile the scheme is. -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95
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