From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 16:39:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D7216A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:39:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5032543D3F for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:39:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i9TGdPLU013371; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.245] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0)i9TGdOCQ016557; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:39:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <41822F3B.5070108@zaba.com> References: <20041028185347.GA1917@zaba-s-2.hpl.hp.com> <4181C1A2.2040707@mac.com> <41822F3B.5070108@zaba.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <16FF66C8-29C9-11D9-9599-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:39:23 -0400 To: Stefek Zaba X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown(8): supposed to dismount all FSes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:39:28 -0000 On Oct 29, 2004, at 7:53 AM, Stefek Zaba wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> ...I recall that there are some issues handling ext2fs filesystems >> cleanly during the shutdown process, which tend to cause them to not >> be unmounted properly. It's considered a bug. > Thanks, Chuck. When I tried searching the PRs for this, I came up > blank; but your reply caused me to search harder, and indeed this is a > dup of 'PR kern/56675: Syncer "giving up" on buffers and ext2 > filesystems' > which is still Open, reported 10sep03. My experience suggests it's > still a problem with 5.3-RC1. You're certainly welcome, and I'm pleased that my memory was working well enough to be helpful. :-) > Obviously, on a "production" FreeBSD system, this bug is of minor > relevance, as you'll be running UFS throughouth. But for the > multibooters among us, who are looking (say) to straddle the Linux and > BSD worlds, being able to mount the "old" ext2/ext3 partitions > routinely is a Good Thing in easing the transition; so for such users > the bug is more important. You might find that unmounting the ext2/ext3 filesystem by hand before rebooting is an adequate workaround, since that ought to leave the filesystem in a clean state. -- -Chuck