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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:17:06 -0400
From:      asym <bsdlists@rfnj.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process
Message-ID:  <6.2.1.2.2.20050714161537.0378c310@mail.rfnj.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050714191942.GA98637@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <42D6B117.5080302@plab.ku.dk> <20050714191449.A8A615D07@ptavv.es.net> <20050714191942.GA98637@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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At 15:19 7/14/2005, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:14:49PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote..
> > > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:38:15 +0200
> > > From: Anatoliy Dmytriyev <tolid@plab.ku.dk>
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> > >
> > > Hello, everybody!
> > >
> > > I have found unusual and dangerous situation with shutdown process:
> > > I did a copy of 200 GB data on the 870 GB partition (softupdates is
> > > enabled) by cp command.
> > > It took a lot of time when I did umount for this partition exactly=
 after
> > > cp, but procedure finished correctly.
> > > In case, if I did =E2=80=9Cshutdown =E2=80=93h(r)=E2=80=9D, also=
 exactly after cp, the=20
> shutdown
> > > procedure waited for =E2=80=9Csync=E2=80=9D (umounting of the file=
 system) but sync
> > > process was terminated by  timeout, and fsck checked and did=
 correction
> > > of the file system after boot.
> > >
> > > System 5.4-stable, RAM 4GB, processor P-IV 3GHz.
> > >
> > > How can I fix it on my system?

The funny thing about all the replies here.. is that this guy is not saying=
=20
that sync doesn't work.

He's saying that the timeout built into shutdown causes it to *terminate*=20
the sync forcibly before it's done, and then reboot.

All finger pointing about IDE, SCSI, softupdates, and journals aside.. I=20
think all he wants/needs is a way to increase that timer.




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