Fun with df

Suleiman Souhlal ssouhlal at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 29 16:29:01 UTC 2006


Scott Long wrote:

> So does this mean that dirty metadata buffers didn't get flushed?  If
> so, where did they go?  Or does it mean that certain metadata fields
> never even got updated?  Sigh, what a mess =-(  Does this happen with
> softupdates turned off?

I'd have to take a look at this problem again, but if I remember 
correctly, some blocks don't get freed if we unmount in the middle, and 
I couldn't figure out why the hell not.

I don't think I tried without softupdates, but I'm pretty sure this 
would not happen with softupdates off.

-- Suleiman


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