Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:37:47 -0500 From: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: kalev@colleduc.ee Subject: Re: Giving up on x buffers - losing files Message-ID: <40E0576B.9020009@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <200406281354.i5SDsJkm067510@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200406281354.i5SDsJkm067510@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On 06/28/04 08:54, Don Lewis wrote: > On 28 Jun, Kalev Lember wrote: >>Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: >>> <snip> >>> >>> Sometimes, particularly after doing a lot of file writes (i.e. >>> compiling a lot of ports, building world and mergemastering, >>> etc), I get the 'Giving up on x buffers' message on shutdown, and >>> my filesystems come up dirty when I restart. >>> >>> <snip> >>> > >> So, why does this happen? And how do I prevent it from happening? >>> This definitely does _not_ sound like something I want my servers >>> to do when 5.x goes -STABLE. >> >> Not sure if it is related, but if I have ext2 mounted on shutdown, >> the syncer also fails and gives up on a few buffers. It is >> reproducable. I can recall it was fixed about a year ago, but then >> broke again. > > This is an unrelated bug that has also been discussed. I believe it > even affects read-only mounts of ext2 file systems. Yeah, be sure to unmount manually before shutting down. Jon
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