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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