Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:23:27 -0600 From: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mounted ext2 fs causes bad shutdown Message-ID: <d9175cad05013118234734fd8e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050131110432.GD8619@alzatex.com> References: <20050131110432.GD8619@alzatex.com>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:04:32 -0800, Loren M. Lang <lorenl@alzatex.com> wrote: > On a FreeBSD 5.3 system of mine that is dual boot with linux I have my > linux home partition which is ext3fs mounted on freebsd. Anytime I > reboot or halt freebsd while it is mounted, freebsd fails to sync all > it's buffers. The first message Syncing disks, vnodes remaining, starts > out at around 5 or 10 and descreases to 0, then the message Syncing > disks, buffers remaining... starts at 7 and stays at 7 the whole time > untill freebsd gives up and reboots or halts anyways. Whenever I first > unmount the ext2fs, the vnodes remaining message comes up as usually, > but the buffers remains never does and freebsd just reboots normally. I > could modify the shutdown scripts to unmount the fs manually I suppose, > but I'd like to solve the real problem. > > P.S. I'd love to debug this myself, but I'm not very familiar with the > freebsd source code yet, and I'm not sure how to use a debugger on it > yet. Any pointers would be appreciated. Well, there is a PR on this (I don't remember which, but I found it via a google search for the same problem with ext2fs. For lack of a better solution at the time, I put a umount in rc.shutdown. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.
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