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On Monday 23 August 2004 04:42, Doug White wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Nehal wrote:
> > the bug 'Syncer "giving up" on buffers and ext2 filesystems'
> > (PR kern/56675
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/56675)
> > has existed for almost a year, and i have tested in a recent
> > snapshot (18th August) and it still exists, will this bug be fixed
> > for 5.3? seems to be quite an important bug.
>
> It would be nice if someone could come up with a patch, even a quick one.

In case there'll be no fix in code, there's at least this workaround which=
=20
I've been using for a few months now:=20
http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/rc.shutdown.diff

=2D-=20
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