... > > So you had a scenario where a program was doing I/O right up to system > (initiator) shutdown, and some of those I/O's got lost in the process? > I guess I don't understand why the OS didn't flush all outstanding I/O > buffers after terminating the program and before finishing the shutdown. > Maybe you are doing something illegal in your driver, or maybe you need > to implement a kernel shutdown hook that will allow you to block the > shutdown until everything is flushed. > the problem was solved! it just took me a while to find the cause :-) the driver picks the fd/socket from userland, via fgetsock(...), this increases the socket usage count, which I wrongly believed would save me from the userland exiting. a call to fget(...) now solves this, and so shutdown can now flush all iscsi buffers, and fsck'in is not necesary on reboot.
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