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Date:      Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:01:22 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        gibbs@pluto.plutotech.com
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reboot no work
Message-ID:  <199810110601.AAA12145@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810110557.XAA21231@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Oct 10, 98 11:50:34 pm"

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Justin T. Gibbs wrote...
> >I don't think that's necessarily the case.  (Although it would make sense
> >that all devices would see final close, wouldn't it? :)  When I was testing
> >out the shutdown hook changes, I noticed that every time I rebooted, the
> >open flag was cleared for the secondary drive, but not for the boot drive.
> 
> There must be a slice always left open.  But if this is the case, the
> version of scsi_da that did not check in close to see if other slices
> were open would still see at least a close or two during boot processing.
> Disk devices seem to get opened and closed several times early in system
> startup.

Well, he said that the problem went away when he went from version 1.8 of
scsi_da.c to version 1.7.  Version 1.8 was the one where I added the sync
cache stuff.

Any theories as to why it makes a difference?

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

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