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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 21:35:51 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, gibbs@plutotech.com
Cc:        mauri@aripaev.ee, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FW: -STABLE scsi problem (bug?)
Message-ID:  <199905281135.VAA29921@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>} >Can't we just walk the buffer list, note the FSes the buffers reference,
>} >and unmount any FSes that aren't referenced?
>} 
>} We could, but syncing can only fail if there is an unexpected problem, so
>} we should be conservative if we don't understand the problem.
>
>I think this is overly conservative.  The unwritten buffers could be
>destined for a dead NFS server, and we could be rebooting to clear the
>stuck mount point.  It could be a definite inconvenience if this forces
>a bunch of huge local filesystems to be fsck'ed.

The nfs case is understood.  Special handling for it was added in
rev.1.42 of kern_shutown.c.

Bruce


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