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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:53:04 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: /c: unmount pending error: blocks -68512 files 0
Message-ID:  <20060128005304.GA70164@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <43DABFCA.5030509@mac.com>
References:  <20060128000909.GA69458@xor.obsecurity.org> <43DABFCA.5030509@mac.com>

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:50:18PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > /c: unmount pending error: blocks -68512 files 0  =20
> >=20
> > This warning has been popping up sporadically on my systems at reboot
> > time since FreeBSD 5.3..what causes it?
>=20
> Did you have any processes stuck in an uninterruptable condition when you
> unmounted the filesystem?  The message is from:

Perhaps, but none that I noticed this time.  I do encounter that
sometimes though.

Kris

> > % find /usr/src/sys -name *.c -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n 'unmount pendi=
ng error:'
> /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c:961:
>=20
>         if (fs->fs_pendingblocks !=3D 0 || fs->fs_pendinginodes !=3D 0) {
>                 printf("%s: unmount pending error: blocks %jd files %d\n",
>                     fs->fs_fsmnt, (intmax_t)fs->fs_pendingblocks,
>                     fs->fs_pendinginodes);
>                 fs->fs_pendingblocks =3D 0;
>                 fs->fs_pendinginodes =3D 0;
>         }
>=20
> A quick look there suggests that ffs_unmount() tries to call
> softdep_flushfiles() or ffs_flushfiles().  Apparently, if those fail to f=
lush
> all pending data, the error message you've seen is generated.
>=20
> The printf() statement should be using an unsigned int format string rath=
er than
> claiming a negative number of blocks is affected, or perhaps
> fs->fs_pendingblocks ought to be an u_int64_t...?
>=20
> --=20
> -Chuck
>=20

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