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

[Matthias Andree]

Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au> writes:

> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 06 December 2003 05:33, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Oops.  I haven't seen this problem with ffs, but I only use it with
> old configuration options for stability and compatibility.  Unmounting
> should still help for other file systems.

Makes me wonder what FreeBSD does on shutdown if not umount and how
fragile the scheme is.

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Matthias Andree

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