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Date:      Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:06:53 -0700
From:      Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dirty buffers on reboot..
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.19.2.20000909090502.00a74d98@pozo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000909115916.67885A-100000@fledge.watson.o rg>
References:  <200009081942.MAA57127@pike.osd.bsdi.com>

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At 11:59 AM 9/9/2000 -0400, Robert Watson wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>> Ok, an update on the dirty buffers on reboot:
>> 
>> If you use the reboot command, you will get dirty buffers.  If you use
>> 'shutdown -r now' instead, you won't get dirty buffers.  Thus, as a
>> workaround for now, use the shutdown command to reboot your box until we
>> can track this down. 
>
>Um.  Nope. :-)  I only use shutdown -r  now, and I still get dirty
>buffers.

I too only use "shutdown -r now" and still get dirty buffers.
Tor Egge posted a patch and with the patch to kern_shutdown.c 
I no longer have the problem.
Manfred
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