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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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