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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