Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:54:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystems not properly unmounted [OT] Message-ID: <200506080854.j588s74m015797@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <freebsd-chat.op.sr0ub4o18527sy@outgoing.local>
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[Quoting fixed.] Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> wrote: > Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > > Yuval Levy <yuval_levy@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Which brings me back to the topic of this thread: is there anybody out > > > there with the skills to cleanly solve this shameful situation in which > > > rebooting FreeBSD results in unclean mounting of ext2 (and potentially > > > other) volumes? > > > > A umount command in rc.shutdown should be a feasible > > work-around. > > > > Fixing the driver is probably not a high-priority, because > > not many users are affected by the problem, I guess. > > (But then again: It's open source, so you can try to fix > > it yourself.) > > Did you guys already unmount your filesystem? The point is that it should not be necessary to explicitly unmount the filesystem. Upon shutdown, all UFS filesystems are unmounted automatically by the kernel (even if they're not mentioned in /etc/fstab). However, that doesn't apply to ext2 filesystems. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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