Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:11:19 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: panic: swap_pager_isswapped: failed to locate all swap meta blocks Message-ID: <20040925171119.GA90839@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040925095549.GH9550@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <7m7jqjhojv.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <20040924122508.GG9550@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040924143224.GG47816@dan.emsphone.com> <20040925095549.GH9550@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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In the last episode (Sep 25), Pawel Jakub Dawidek said: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:32:30AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > +> > This is indirectly caused by me. I added 'stop' method to > +> > rc.d/swap1 script and now swapoff(8) is done on every > +> > shutdown(8) run. > +> > > +> > Will it be possible to fix it or should I made this optional? > +> > +> Considering that the system is going down anyway, why bother? > > Because if you have swap on e.g. gmirror device, gmirror will rebuild > components on every boot, because components are marked dirty - they > were open for writing on shutdown, so it looks like a power failure. Can you clear the flag when all writes are synched (perhaps after a 2-sec delay)? Just because it's open for writing doesn't mean it's dirty. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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