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From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Subject: Re: kern/24085: syncing on shutdown leaves filesystem dirty
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The following reply was made to PR kern/24085; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, chris@interface-business.de
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Subject: Re: kern/24085: syncing on shutdown leaves filesystem dirty
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:03:22 +0200

 Hmm... Maybe this problem could be related to the disk's write cache.
 Some disks delay the writes to media indefinitely.
 
 Suggestion: upgrade to 4.3-RELEASE or 4-STABLE (WC is now disabled
 by default and there are tunables for enabling it) and see if the
 problem persists.
 
 -- JMA
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