Re: giving up on 1 buffers error messsage

2005-02-25 Thread João Carlos Mendes Luís
Although I am not exactly an expert on the field, I'll try to explain. The disk write procedures should wait for the disk to be ready, and this involves (soft)interrupts. When rebooting, the system can only wait for the device drivers to empty the write buffers, since it is not in interrupt con

Re: giving up on 1 buffers error messsage

2005-02-25 Thread Andriy Tkachuk
It is interesting why threre is no answer for this question so long time, regardless that it was posted 2 times :) For me it is also interesting to get the answer for this question since from time to time i also confused by such msgs on shutdown. > > syncing disks... 54 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

giving up on 1 buffers error messsage

2005-02-22 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
syncing disks... 54 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up on 1 buffers Hi, I am referring to the message when the code in kern_shutdown.c in bsd 4.10 is called at the time of boot() system call My understanding is that this message tells us that 1 buffer from the buffer cache wa

giving up on 1 buffers error messsage

2005-02-19 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
syncing disks... 54 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up on 1 buffers Hi, I am referring to the message when the code in kern_shutdown.c in bsd 4.10 is called at the time of boot() system call My understanding is that this message tells us that 1 buffer from the buffer cache w