Re: Syncer giving up on buffers for ext2fs

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:51:30 +0200
Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net> wrote:

> On Monday 23 August 2004 04:42, Doug White wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Nehal wrote:
> > > the bug 'Syncer "giving up" on buffers and ext2 filesystems'
> > > (PR kern/56675
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/56675)
> > > has existed for almost a year, and i have tested in a recent
> > > snapshot (18th August) and it still exists, will this bug be
> > > fixed for 5.3? seems to be quite an important bug.
> >
> > It would be nice if someone could come up with a patch, even a
> > quick one.
> 
> In case there'll be no fix in code, there's at least this
> workaround which I've been using for a few months now: 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/rc.shutdown.diff
> 
i use a similar workaround for now, but i'm not sure why you have
used so many lines, a simple 'umount -a -t ext2fs' command would
do the job

Nehal