Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem

[O. Hartmann]

Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:19:40 +0100, Matthew D. Fuller
> <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:37:58AM +1100 I heard the voice of
>> Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus:
>>>
>>> All current Un*x filesystems will automatically flush all buffers as
>>> part of the unmount process
>>
>> That Depends(tm), partly on what you mean by 'unmount'.
>>
>> With my Nov05 and Jun06 -CURRENT's, I had to take great care to sync
>> and sync and wait and sync and sync filesystems before "mount -u -o
>> ro"'ing them, because otherwise they'd end up NOT flushing everything,
>> leaving unreferenced stuff around that fsck had to clean up, but only
>> if I ran it manually because mount DID mark the filesystem as clean.
>>
>> I just tried to reproduce it on my last-week -CURRENT, and it no
>> longer does that.  Instead, it locked itself into a "softdep_waitidle:
>> Failed to flush worklist" loop and won't LET me remount r/o (or
>> unmount) the filesystems.  Obviously, I should have kept up my
>> now-established habit of sync'ing and waiting a while before
>> un/remounting...
>
> IMHO: Please discuss this on freebsd-current at freebsd.org. And read the
> handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook) about
> releases/versions/branches. -CURRENT is known to have bugs.
>
> -- Ronald Klop
>  Amsterdam, The Netherlands


One of the fellows herein told me this discussion is subject to STABLE!

Regards,
Oliver