Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:55:05 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c Message-ID: <40FE9FE9.6020100@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040721122111.56342C-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040721122111.56342C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: >On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Roman Kurakin wrote: > > > >>How to change behavior? >> >> > >When we're in a "panic" state, we will no long attempt to call out to all >file systems to synchronize their on-disk data with in-memory data. This >was unreliable in many circumstances because panic() can be called from >some interesting places, such as in the scheduler, interrupt handlers, in >the file system code, etc, and those circumstances were not conducive to > > But if we are in panic in a good place it may save some critical data. Is it possible to give a choice to user? [...] rik
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