On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jan Srzednicki wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:53:48PM +0300, Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote:
> > I have a problem with kernels, built the last couple of days, where > > during shutdown syncer is "giving up" on buffers. During the next boot > > all filesystems are checked because of improper dismount. Here follow > > the exact messages I get: > > ... > > After some testing I found out that this does _not_ happen if I manually > > unmount my ext2 filesystems, before shutting down. In this case syncer > > finishes without any problems. > > I confirm that, same thing happened in my case. But, I had just one > buffer remaining and ext2fs mounted in read-only. It seems that it's not > so read-only then.. Even read-only ext2fs hangs onto the buffers. They are never dirty in the read-only case, but they are busy so the code that waits for all buffers to become non-dirty doesn't even look at them to decide if they are dirty (it waits for them to become non-busy). So even clean but busy buffers prevent a clean shutdown. Bruce _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
