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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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