On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 05:17:44PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > Are you using UFS1 extended attributes on that box?
Yes. (290) smkelly@edgemaster:~$ grep UFS /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/EDGEMASTER options UFS_DIRHASH options UFS_EXTATTR options UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART options UFS_ACL > I suspect there might > be a bug involving the open flags passed to extended attribute backing > vnodes such that a remount is refused because there are existing vnodes > opened writable. I.e., the extended attribute backing files are opened > FREAD|FWRITE, and since the file system is mounted read-only, remount > refuses to upgrade to a rw mount until they are closed. My guess is that, > in fact, this should be permitted, or we should re-open the backing files > on a remount. I'd like to get this bug fixed, but it is another reason to > recommend UFS2 over UFS1. That would make sense. I had never considered the backing files being the cause of it. If necessary, I can rebuild my kernel without ACLs and EXTATTRs to see if that cures the problem. I haven't switched to UFS2 for a few reasons: * I don't know what state it is in (can I boot from it on x86?) * I don't know how stable it is now * I don't really want to have to go through the hassle of backing up and restoring all my data right now. Oh what I'd give for a conversion tool. Hello? Partition Magic people? *shakes wallet* -- Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: 77042C7B [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.zombie.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
