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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:55:14 +0100
From:      Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata)
Message-ID:  <200312050055.16683.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
In-Reply-To: <200311280011.11384.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
References:  <20031126183744.GA9140@merlin.emma.line.org> <1069926206.891.3.camel@shoeserv.freebsd> <200311280011.11384.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>

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On Friday 28 November 2003 00:11, you wrote:
> On Thursday 27 November 2003 10:43, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 19:37, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > when I rebooted my 5.2-BETA (kernel about 24 hours old), it gave up on
> > > flushing 4 dirty blocks.
> > >
> > > I had three UFS1 softdep file systems mounted on one ATA drive, one
> >
> > ext2
> >
> > > file system on another ATA drive and one ext2 file system on a SCSI
> > > drive.  Both ext2 file systems had been mounted read-only, so they
> >
> > can't
> >
> > > have had dirty blocks.
> >
> > This is a known problem for nearly three months now (See PR 56675). It
> > happens to me every time I shut down the system if i don't unmount my
> > (read-only) ext2 file systems manually.
>
> I have this same problem, but I only have ufs1 partitions, all mounted r/=
w.
> It seemed to appear about 3 weeks ago, so there has to be a commit in this
> timeframe that caused it.
>
> An extra inconvenience is that I always lose one or two files when I
> shutdown due to ATA write caching - if I turn it off, I don't lose files,
> but my system is too slow.
>
> Doing a manual 'sync' before shutting down seems to help.

=46YI, I'm still seeing this problem on a -CURRENT system from today. Is th=
ere=20
any way I can help to diagnose the cause of this problem? Is there already =
a=20
fix available somewhere?

Best regards,

Arjan

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