Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:17:27 +0100 (CET) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.2.5-STABLE: is this a bug in umount? Message-ID: <199802271717.SAA00672@intern>
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Hi, let's assume the following (done as root): mount /dev/sd3c /mnt tar cf /mnt/bla.tar some_big_directory While the tar is running we do the following in another shell: umount /mnt If we see a "Device busy" error we just repeat the umount again and again. Suddenly the system freezes for about 10 seconds and reboots. During the bootstrap the following message appears: bali daemon.alert savecore: reboot after panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs Now my question is: Is this the expected behaviour from umount? If you ask me why I do such a silly thing, it's because I mount my portable disk drive with amd. Then I start a timeconsuming job on this drive (in my case a tar from the network). After the default timeout of 5 minutes the amd unmounts the fs and the system crashes. I can reproduce this if you tell me. All that happens on a FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE system. Is this a bug (so I will send in a PR) or a feature? Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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