On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:40:48AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > In any case, adding a workaround for a specific setup which can potentially
> > cause spurious failures for everyone is not appropriate.
>
> I agree with that, but it is the case here?
>
> Running with vnd backends on the root partition is not what I would call
> a specific setup,
You're the only one seeing this problem AFAIK
> and it is not obvious the change can do actual harm.
Returning EAGAIN without reason is harmfull.
>
> I agree a EAGAIN on unmount(2) as shutdown time would be a problem, but
> can it happen? /etc/rc.d/mountall calls umount -a after all processes
It's not called from reboot(2)
> using the filesystem have exit. What process would call fstrans_start()
> while umount tries to do a file suspension?
What about removable devices ? what about snapshots ?
And I may have missed other cases ...
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Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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