Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:39:23 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Stefek Zaba <s-freebsd-qns-oct04@zaba.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown(8): supposed to dismount all FSes? Message-ID: <16FF66C8-29C9-11D9-9599-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <41822F3B.5070108@zaba.com> References: <20041028185347.GA1917@zaba-s-2.hpl.hp.com> <4181C1A2.2040707@mac.com> <41822F3B.5070108@zaba.com>
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On Oct 29, 2004, at 7:53 AM, Stefek Zaba wrote: > 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. You're certainly welcome, and I'm pleased that my memory was working well enough to be helpful. :-) > 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. You might find that unmounting the ext2/ext3 filesystem by hand before rebooting is an adequate workaround, since that ought to leave the filesystem in a clean state. -- -Chuck
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