Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 03:51:01 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, yuval_levy@yahoo.com Subject: Re: filesystems not properly unmounted Message-ID: <429FB785.8030102@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <200506022353.j52NrkEH004579@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200506022353.j52NrkEH004579@gw.catspoiler.org>
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Don Lewis wrote: > Nope, the ext2fs problem is different. It is caused by ext2fs holding > persistent references to disk buffers that causes the kernel shutdown > code to to think that not all the dirty buffers have been written to > disk and skip unmounting all the file systems. Can't that be changed in a way that the kernel checks that in a per-filesystem granularity instead of seemingly global? I mean, I can understand that a marginal ext2 fs driver can cause problems with ext2 filesystems, but affecting other filesystems aswell in such a way is not nice. mkb.
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