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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:


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