On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:04:32 -0800, Loren M. Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a FreeBSD 5.3 system of mine that is dual boot with linux I have my > linux home partition which is ext3fs mounted on freebsd. Anytime I > reboot or halt freebsd while it is mounted, freebsd fails to sync all > it's buffers. The first message Syncing disks, vnodes remaining, starts > out at around 5 or 10 and descreases to 0, then the message Syncing > disks, buffers remaining... starts at 7 and stays at 7 the whole time > untill freebsd gives up and reboots or halts anyways. Whenever I first > unmount the ext2fs, the vnodes remaining message comes up as usually, > but the buffers remains never does and freebsd just reboots normally. I > could modify the shutdown scripts to unmount the fs manually I suppose, > but I'd like to solve the real problem. > > P.S. I'd love to debug this myself, but I'm not very familiar with the > freebsd source code yet, and I'm not sure how to use a debugger on it > yet. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Well, there is a PR on this (I don't remember which, but I found it via a google search for the same problem with ext2fs. For lack of a better solution at the time, I put a umount in rc.shutdown. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
