From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 26 08:06:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B3716A407 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:06:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1225A43D46 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:05:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F5B1A3C19; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:06:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B6D3651375; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:06:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:06:13 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: "O. Hartmann" Message-ID: <20061126080613.GC48708@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45686A63.6030708@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="R+My9LyyhiUvIEro" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45686A63.6030708@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:06:30 -0000 --R+My9LyyhiUvIEro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 05:08:03PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > A while ago since now I receive kernel messages like this in FreeBSD > 6.2-PRE/AMD64: >=20 > fsync: giving up on dirty > 0xffffff000362c7c0: tag devfs, type VCHR > usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 325 mountedhere 0xffffff00504d8400 > flags () > v_object 0xffffff00013c80e0 ref 0 pages 1286 > lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xffffff0050287260 (pid > 14109) > dev ufs/BACKUP >=20 > Filesystem is an external USB attached SATA HD, ohci() driven (due to > ehci() is not working stable and properly on FreeBSD 6.2). >=20 > Filesystem is mounted via amd() and there via the'script' option in > amd() due to problems of the amd() mounting process recognizing UFS > filesystems. After 30 seconds of inactivity the filesystems gets > dismounted. This worked quite well in the past, but now I see this > kernel error messages. >=20 > Before doing a PR, I would like to serious ask whether this is an issue > or not. It's not a serious issue, AFAIK. Kris --R+My9LyyhiUvIEro Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFaUr1Wry0BWjoQKURAu3uAJ9+eU8yJMhEKPhI0IqLMiZII4vWLgCgxN3n 5mC3nSTPeZlGdF1Wk7mw+Zg= =O+ol -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --R+My9LyyhiUvIEro--