Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:53:31 +0100 From: Stefek Zaba <s-freebsd-qns-oct04@zaba.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown(8): supposed to dismount all FSes? Message-ID: <41822F3B.5070108@zaba.com> In-Reply-To: <4181C1A2.2040707@mac.com> References: <20041028185347.GA1917@zaba-s-2.hpl.hp.com> <4181C1A2.2040707@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > > ...I recall that there are some issues handling ext2fs filesystems > cleanly during the shutdown process, which tend to cause them to not be > unmounted properly. It's considered a bug. > Thanks, Chuck. When I tried searching the PRs for this, I came up blank; but your reply caused me to search harder, and indeed this is a dup of 'PR kern/56675: Syncer "giving up" on buffers and ext2 filesystems' which is still Open, reported 10sep03. My experience suggests it's still a problem with 5.3-RC1. Obviously, on a "production" FreeBSD system, this bug is of minor relevance, as you'll be running UFS throughouth. But for the multibooters among us, who are looking (say) to straddle the Linux and BSD worlds, being able to mount the "old" ext2/ext3 partitions routinely is a Good Thing in easing the transition; so for such users the bug is more important. Still, I've no idea whether this is a relatively easy fix which just needs Motivation to address, or whether the ext2fs code is a "please don't make me go there" area! Ta, Stefek
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