From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 21:55:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63EDE16A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:55:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE16743D31 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:55:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nehalmistry@gmx.net) Received: from pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.213]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I2Z004HS0LEJY@l-daemon> for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:48:50 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I2Z00FEO0LET7O0@pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:48:50 -0600 (MDT) Received: from nehal (S0106000c76fb2787.vf.shawcable.net [70.68.11.114]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with SMTP id <0I2Z00B4N0LE47@l-daemon> for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:48:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:49:12 -0700 From: Nehal In-reply-to: <200408241951.34799.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <20040824144912.00007cd8@nehal> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.3.0; Win32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20040821174133.00007d48@nehal> <20040822194126.T94593@carver.gumbysoft.com> <200408241951.34799.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Subject: Re: Syncer giving up on buffers for ext2fs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:55:41 -0000 On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:51:30 +0200 Michael Nottebrock 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