Ronald Klop wrote: > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:19:40 +0100, Matthew D. Fuller > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:37:58AM +1100 I heard the voice of >> Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus: >>> >>> All current Un*x filesystems will automatically flush all buffers as >>> part of the unmount process >> >> That Depends(tm), partly on what you mean by 'unmount'. >> >> With my Nov05 and Jun06 -CURRENT's, I had to take great care to sync >> and sync and wait and sync and sync filesystems before "mount -u -o >> ro"'ing them, because otherwise they'd end up NOT flushing everything, >> leaving unreferenced stuff around that fsck had to clean up, but only >> if I ran it manually because mount DID mark the filesystem as clean. >> >> I just tried to reproduce it on my last-week -CURRENT, and it no >> longer does that. Instead, it locked itself into a "softdep_waitidle: >> Failed to flush worklist" loop and won't LET me remount r/o (or >> unmount) the filesystems. Obviously, I should have kept up my >> now-established habit of sync'ing and waiting a while before >> un/remounting... > > IMHO: Please discuss this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] And read the > handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook) about > releases/versions/branches. -CURRENT is known to have bugs. > > -- Ronald Klop > Amsterdam, The Netherlands
One of the fellows herein told me this discussion is subject to STABLE! Regards, Oliver _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
