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

[Andy Farkas]

Matthias Andree wrote:

> when I rebooted my 5.2-BETA (kernel about 24 hours old), it gave up on
> flushing 4 dirty blocks.

This is easy to reproduce, but apparently uninteresting to the developers:

Reboot to single user, run full fsck, halt.

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        Andy Farkas
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   Speednet Communications
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