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From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:39:34PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> FWIW, I think that doing a swapoff in the shutdown path is just asking
> for trouble.  Fixing whatever bug this is would of course be nice, but
> the need for swapoff here is a hack and only opens up up to problems.

I agree. It looks like sort of race happens. Application (cvsupd) can be 
killed, but its inodes activity delayed by softupdates a bit more (just 
raw guess). I see no useful purpose to call swapoff(8) at shutdown stage, 
correct me, if I am not right.

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Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/