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Date:      Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:36:20 +0100 (CET)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@webweaving.org>
To:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, vallo@matti.ee, "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>, FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mount(2) broken?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912061735160.2742-100000@henny.jrc.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912051902020.257-100000@localhost>

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> > Please update your /dev entries.  You need to copy MAKEDEV from the
> > source area (it isn't installed by default) and run it with the right
> > arguments to recreate the device nodes you need.
> 
> I've seen this exact same thing before too.  In fact it was two rather
> annoying things, one being a single solitary last buffer that wouldn't
> sync and thus left the whole fs marked dirty, and then fsck would check
> it, see it was fine, but mount wouldn't recognize that it was clean.
> 
> 'Course I saw this this morning too.  Yes, with a new kernel, new devices,
> ata driver, and new world.  'Twas very odd.

Most probably this is exactly the problem I was describing to you a
couple of days ago on IRC, phk.

The solution is to boot single user, fsck / and reboot. After that
things are back to normal. Even crashing the machine does not make this
problem reoccur.

Nick

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