On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:37:58AM +1100 I heard the voice of Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus: > > All current Un*x filesystems will automatically flush all buffers as > part of the unmount process
That Depends(tm), partly on what you mean by 'unmount'. With my Nov05 and Jun06 -CURRENT's, I had to take great care to sync and sync and wait and sync and sync filesystems before "mount -u -o ro"'ing them, because otherwise they'd end up NOT flushing everything, leaving unreferenced stuff around that fsck had to clean up, but only if I ran it manually because mount DID mark the filesystem as clean. I just tried to reproduce it on my last-week -CURRENT, and it no longer does that. Instead, it locked itself into a "softdep_waitidle: Failed to flush worklist" loop and won't LET me remount r/o (or unmount) the filesystems. Obviously, I should have kept up my now-established habit of sync'ing and waiting a while before un/remounting... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
