Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:40:49 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "Robert Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> Cc: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syncing filesystems... giving up Message-ID: <199903141841.KAA45516@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:23:42 PST." <s6e82674.001@usgs.gov>
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A patch for PR/10528 was committed last Thursday.
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
In message <s6e82674.001@usgs.gov>, "Robert Sowders" writes:
> I also noticed this behavior after I moved /tmp to MFS, this is the line from
> my fstab
>
> /dev/wd0s2b /tmp mfs rw,-
> s=100000,nodev,noexec 0 0
>
> after this I occassionally get a dirty buffers, or pages message then the sys
> tem gives up on it
> and reboots.
> please excuse the formatting.
>
> >>> HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> 3/10/99 12:27:06 AM >>>
> 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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