Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 04:46:17 -0800 (PST) From: chris@interface-business.de To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/24085: syncing on shutdown leaves filesystem dirty Message-ID: <200101051246.f05CkH714763@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200101051250.f05Co3H15273@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 24085 >Category: kern >Synopsis: syncing on shutdown leaves filesystem dirty >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 05 04:50:03 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Christian Schade >Release: 4.2-STABLE >Organization: Interface Business GmbH >Environment: FreeBSD chuck.cube.sax.de 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 3 21:08:03 CET 2001 root@chuck.cube.sax.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHUCK i386 >Description: If you have softupdates enabled and write a large file, it's possible when you shutdown the machine, that syncing gives up before all buffers are written: syncing ... 15 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up >How-To-Repeat: Write a large file and reboot imediately. This error may not occur if your harddisk is fast enough >Fix: - replace the 20 iterations in syncing by a sysctl variable - find a better algorithm for syncing >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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