5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata)

[Arjan van Leeuwen]

On Saturday 06 December 2003 05:33, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 27 November 2003 10:43, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > > > This is a known problem for nearly three months now (See PR 56675).
> > > > It happens to me every time I shut down the system if i don't unmount
> > > > my (read-only) ext2 file systems manually.
> >
> > FYI, I'm still seeing this problem on a -CURRENT system from today. Is
> > there any way I can help to diagnose the cause of this problem? Is there
> > already a fix available somewhere?
>
> No need.  It was diagnosed over 3 months ago (see PR 56675).  I don't know
> of any publicly available fix.  My version of ext2fs avoids the bug by
> doing buffering differently.
>
> As a workaround, unmount ext2fs file systems before rebooting.
> Unmounting most file systems before rebooting should be the default
> anyway (handled by shutdown(8) and reboot(8)), since unmounting may
> fail and vfs_unmountall() in the kernel has no good way to log errors.

Thanks. It won't help though, as I don't have any ext2fs file systems, only 
UFS. Also, my problem isn't 3 months old - I'm only seeing it since a few 
weeks.

Best regards,

Arjan
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