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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:25:02 -0500
From:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
To:        Esa Karkkainen <ejk@iki.fi>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down
Message-ID:  <16370.20382.81302.449649@canoe.dclg.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20031229164130.GA797@pp.htv.fi>
References:  <20031229164130.GA797@pp.htv.fi>

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>>>>> "Esa" == Esa Karkkainen <ejk@iki.fi> writes:

Esa> For some reason my home PC is occasionally unable to sync to disk
Esa> when I run "shutdown -p now". The HW in question is a Shuttle
Esa> SN45G which has NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 North bridge and MCP-T
Esa> South bridge. I've attached dmesg to this e-mail.

Are you using snapshots?  I find that large (where in my case, large
is partitions larger than 30G or so) partitions with more than one
snapshot cause the system to not sync the disks on shutdown.

Dave.

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