File remove problem

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:41  David Cecil saw "Error reading FAT table?
Try SKINNY table?" And promptly said:

> Hi,

> I've been looking into a problem we're seeing on FreeBSD 6.1, though I 
> believe the bug will exist in current, or at least 7.0.

> Under certain circumstances, when a file is
> removed from the filesystem, and the filesystem
> is remounted read-only immediately afterwards,
> an error such as the following is displayed:
> g_vfs_done():mirror/gmroots1f[WRITE(offset=1349058560,
> length=16384)]error = 1

> I have determined that the buffer contains an update to the
> inode for the file that's deleted. The inode for the directory
> change appears to be updated correctly. So what's not making it
> to disk is the updated file inode with its changed link counts
> (should now be zero). So, somehow this inode is being missed
> during the sync prior to the remount completing.

> I'm still looking through the code to find the problem, but any
> insights from those more familiar with the code would be much
> appreciated.

Are you sure the sync occured?  What happens if you run 'sync'
and then perform the above process?

Bill


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