jails which take a long time to shutdown

[Ernie Luzar]

Dan Langille wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Something came to mind with your recent post about exit codes.
> 
> What if a jail takes minutes to shutdown?  Will it be shutdown properly?
> 
> I ask because I routinely have a jail which when restarted has a corrupted mongodb database.
> 
> I have not tracked down the issue, but I know it takes a while to shutdown.
> 
> --
> Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon
> dan at langille.org
> 
> 

Using the halt command will cause jails to bypass an orderly shutdown 
leaving databases with data in buffers never being written to the 
database. A very big no no.  Use shutdown command always.