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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:27:30 +0200
From:      Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Fun with df
Message-ID:  <442AA762.3000509@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <442AAE0D.2080608@samsco.org>
References:  <20060328155316.GA20036@peter.osted.lan>	<20060328180553.GA8364@xor.obsecurity.org> <442A8D86.9010903@FreeBSD.org> <442AAE0D.2080608@samsco.org>

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Scott Long wrote:

> So does this mean that dirty metadata buffers didn't get flushed?  If
> so, where did they go?  Or does it mean that certain metadata fields
> never even got updated?  Sigh, what a mess =-(  Does this happen with
> softupdates turned off?

I'd have to take a look at this problem again, but if I remember 
correctly, some blocks don't get freed if we unmount in the middle, and 
I couldn't figure out why the hell not.

I don't think I tried without softupdates, but I'm pretty sure this 
would not happen with softupdates off.

-- Suleiman



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