Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:44:33 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: patch for ext2fs unmount problem at shutdown Message-ID: <63946.1125992673@phk.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:39:29 PDT." <200509060739.j867dT0x031916@gw.catspoiler.org>
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In message <200509060739.j867dT0x031916@gw.catspoiler.org>, Don Lewis writes: >Attached below is a patch to fix the problem caused by having any ext2fs >file systems mounted at system shutdown time that prevents any of the >file systems from being unmounted and then being marked dirty when the >system comes back up. It works by tweaking ext2fs so that it marks the >bufs that it keeps locked as long as the file system is mounted, and >tweaks the shutdown code to ignore these bufs when it is counting the >number of busy buffers. Why is this necessary ? As far as I know we do an orderly unmount of all filesystems at shutdown, so shouldn't ext2fs release the buffers at that time ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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