Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:46:30 +0530 From: "Andriy Tkachuk" <andrit@ukr.net> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: giving up on 1 buffers error messsage Message-ID: <00c601c51b12$5a9f0760$090210ac@BORJA> References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0502221205400.8328@antitrust.cs.utah.edu>
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It is interesting why threre is no answer for this question so long time, regardless that it was posted 2 times :) For me it is also interesting to get the answer for this question since from time to time i also confused by such msgs on shutdown. > > syncing disks... 54 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up on 1 > buffers > > > Hi, > > I am referring to the message when the code in kern_shutdown.c in bsd > 4.10 is called at the time of boot() system call > > My understanding is that this message tells us that 1 buffer from the > buffer cache was not successfully flushed to disk, since the last call to > sync(). Is that right? In that case what happens to this buffer? Is it > discarded and assume that fsck will fix this on reboot? > > Since the syncer process runs periodically, can this error message be > avoided if we wait long enough to guarantee flushing to disk (I have tried > with DELAYS upto 30 seconds but I still get the error sometimes). > > I am actually trying to use this same code at a different point in time > (not during shutdown, but to take a checkpoint), so I am not sure if that > contributes to this error message? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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