kern/56675: Syncer "giving up" on buffers and ext2 filesystems [still a problem in 5.3RC1]

[Michael Nottebrock]

The following reply was made to PR kern/56675; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, lefcha at hellug.gr
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/56675: Syncer "giving up" on buffers and ext2 filesystems [still a problem in 5.3RC1]
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:22:23 +0100

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 Here's a better workaround which I've been using for a long time now (it does 
 not use umount -t and thus does not need mounted ext2 filesystems to be 
 listed in /etc/fstab in order to work).
 
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 --- rc.shutdown	Sun Jun  6 13:46:27 2004
 +++ rc.shutdown	Thu Jun 17 18:54:00 2004
 @@ -97,6 +97,13 @@
  
  # Insert other shutdown procedures here
  
 +extfs=`eval mount | grep ext2fs | awk '{print $1 }'`
 +
 +for _elem in $extfs; do
 +	echo -n "Unmounting ext2/ext3 filesystems: "
 +	umount -f $_elem
 +	echo -n "$_elem "
 +done
  
  echo '.'
  exit 0
 
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