From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 11 20:24:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from usgs.gov (igsmn002.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.41.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80F9514F76 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) Received: from IGSMN-Message_Server by usgs.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:24:20 -0800 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:23:42 -0800 From: "Robert Sowders" To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syncing filesystems... giving up Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I also noticed this behavior after I moved /tmp to MFS, this is the line = from my fstab /dev/wd0s2b /tmp mfs = rw,-s=3D100000,nodev,noexec 0 0=20 after this I occassionally get a dirty buffers, or pages message then the = system gives up on it=20 and reboots. please excuse the formatting. >>> HERBELOT Thierry 3/10/99 12:27:06 AM >>> Hello, One problem was the use of MFS (I had it for /tmp and had the same prob with sync) I don't remember if this was fixed or not. TfH Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: >=20 > I've managed to convert a couple of systems to 3.1R. Both systems have > SCSI controllers, one with 2940UW2, one SCSI hard disk, a SCSI CDROM > drive, and 4mm external tape drive the other with a 1542CF, two SCSI > hard disks (+ 2 IDE hard disks), SCSI CDROM drive, and a 4mm internal > tape drive. In both cases I've noticed that when shutting the systems > down (halt or reboot) I get "syncing filesystems... giving up" more > frequently (about 75% of reboots) than under 2.x.x (2.0.5 - 2.2.8). > Has anyone else noticed this? I haven't used 3.1R on IDE only systems > (I have two other systems with only IDE peripherals, however these > haven't been upgraded yet). One of the systems (the one with the > 2940UW2) had been running with CAM patches installed on 2.2.6 through > 2.2.8 with no problems. >=20 > Does anyone have any ideas? >=20 > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca=20 > ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca=20 > Province of BC >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message