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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:06:13 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem
Message-ID:  <20061126080613.GC48708@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <45686A63.6030708@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <45686A63.6030708@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 05:08:03PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> A while ago since now I receive kernel messages like this in FreeBSD
> 6.2-PRE/AMD64:
>=20
> fsync: giving up on dirty
> 0xffffff000362c7c0: tag devfs, type VCHR
>     usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 325 mountedhere 0xffffff00504d8400
>     flags ()
>     v_object 0xffffff00013c80e0 ref 0 pages 1286
>      lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xffffff0050287260 (pid
> 14109)
>         dev ufs/BACKUP
>=20
> Filesystem is an external USB attached SATA HD, ohci() driven (due to
> ehci() is not working stable and properly on FreeBSD 6.2).
>=20
> Filesystem is mounted via amd() and there via the'script' option in
> amd() due to problems of the amd() mounting process recognizing UFS
> filesystems. After 30 seconds of inactivity the filesystems gets
> dismounted. This worked quite well in the past, but now I see this
> kernel error messages.
>=20
> Before doing a PR, I would like to serious ask whether this is an issue
> or not.

It's not a serious issue, AFAIK.

Kris

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