Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 06:48:41 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable panic on shutdown: swapoff: failed to locate N swap blocks Message-ID: <20041016024840.GA50424@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <417089E6.8030105@freebsd.org> References: <20041015075641.GA6820@nagual.pp.ru> <20041015171144.GA69709@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20041015171700.GA74901@nagual.pp.ru> <20041016021131.GA72979@VARK.MIT.EDU> <417089E6.8030105@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:39:34PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > FWIW, I think that doing a swapoff in the shutdown path is just asking > for trouble. Fixing whatever bug this is would of course be nice, but > the need for swapoff here is a hack and only opens up up to problems. I agree. It looks like sort of race happens. Application (cvsupd) can be killed, but its inodes activity delayed by softupdates a bit more (just raw guess). I see no useful purpose to call swapoff(8) at shutdown stage, correct me, if I am not right. -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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