Re: 5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata)

From: Bruce Evans <bde_at_zeta.org.au>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 23:32:22 +1100 (EST)
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:

> On Saturday 06 December 2003 05:33, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > As a workaround, unmount ext2fs file systems before rebooting.
> > Unmounting most file systems before rebooting should be the default
> > anyway (handled by shutdown(8) and reboot(8)), since unmounting may
> > fail and vfs_unmountall() in the kernel has no good way to log errors.
>
> Thanks. It won't help though, as I don't have any ext2fs file systems, only
> UFS. Also, my problem isn't 3 months old - I'm only seeing it since a few
> weeks.

Oops.  I haven't seen this problem with ffs, but I only use it with
old configuration options for stability and compatibility.  Unmounting
should still help for other file systems.

Bruce
Received on Sat Dec 06 2003 - 03:32:29 UTC

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