Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:49:12 -0700 From: Nehal <nehalmistry@gmx.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Syncer giving up on buffers for ext2fs Message-ID: <20040824144912.00007cd8@nehal> In-Reply-To: <200408241951.34799.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20040821174133.00007d48@nehal> <20040822194126.T94593@carver.gumbysoft.com> <200408241951.34799.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:51:30 +0200 Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> wrote: > 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=kern/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 I've been using for a few months now: > http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/rc.shutdown.diff > i use a similar workaround for now, but i'm not sure why you have used so many lines, a simple 'umount -a -t ext2fs' command would do the job Nehal
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