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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:37:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      dbushong@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (David Bushong)
To:        Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr (HERBELOT Thierry)
Cc:        Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syncing filesystems... giving up
Message-ID:  <199903101837.KAA21282@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <36E62CDA.AB62F990@telspace.alcatel.fr> from HERBELOT Thierry at "Mar 10, 99 09:27:06 am"

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Ah HAH!  Thanks!  Now I know what I changed just before this started 
happening to me too (I have an AHA2940UW).  I will try putting umount /tmp
in /etc/rc.shutdown, but what's the reason for this problem?  I have lots
of memory and like my nice fast /tmp...

--David Bushong

> Hello,
> 
> One problem was the use of MFS (I had it for /tmp and had the same prob
> with sync)
> 
> I don't remember if this was fixed or not.
> 
> 	TfH
> 
> 
> Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> > 
> > I've managed to convert a couple of systems to 3.1R.  Both systems have
> > SCSI controllers, one with 2940UW2, one SCSI hard disk, a SCSI CDROM
> > drive, and 4mm external tape drive the other with a 1542CF, two SCSI
> > hard disks (+ 2 IDE hard disks), SCSI CDROM drive, and a 4mm internal
> > tape drive.  In both cases I've noticed that when shutting the systems
> > down (halt or reboot) I get "syncing filesystems... giving up" more
> > frequently (about 75% of reboots) than under 2.x.x (2.0.5 - 2.2.8).
> > Has anyone else noticed this?  I haven't used 3.1R on IDE only systems
> > (I have two other systems with only IDE peripherals, however these
> > haven't been upgraded yet).  One of the systems (the one with the
> > 2940UW2) had been running with CAM patches installed on 2.2.6 through
> > 2.2.8 with no problems.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
> > 
> > Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
> > Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
> > Open Systems Group          Internet:  Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca
> > ITSD                                   Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca
> > Province of BC
> > 
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