Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:24:06 -0500 (EST) From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jazepeda@pacbell.net, vallo@matti.ee Subject: Re: mount(2) broken? Message-ID: <199912071824.NAA25202@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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> >I'd like to add something about the last buffer wouldn't sync. This occurs > >when a shutdown syscall is issued when the syncer process is asleep waiting > >for a buffer write to complete. The write will never complete, because the > >syncer won't be given a chance to run again, and the buffer will stay marked > >as busy and become the buffer that wouldn't sync. I haven't thought about > >a clean way of handling this situation, maybe some of you out there have > >better ideas... > > I always thought it would make sense to have the syncer perform the shutdown > and cleanup since it had code to write buffers with anyway... > This sounds like a good idea, and should be easy to implement. I'll work on it tonight. > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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