Re: Giving up on x buffers - losing files

On 06/28/04 08:54, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 28 Jun, Kalev Lember wrote:
>>Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> 
>>> Sometimes, particularly after doing a lot of file writes (i.e. 
>>> compiling a lot of ports, building world and mergemastering,
>>> etc), I get the 'Giving up on x buffers' message on shutdown, and
>>> my filesystems come up dirty when I restart.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
> >> So, why does this happen? And how do I prevent it from happening?
>>> This definitely does _not_ sound like something I want my servers
>>> to do when 5.x goes -STABLE.
>>
>> Not sure if it is related, but if I have ext2 mounted on shutdown,
>> the syncer also fails and gives up on a few buffers. It is
>> reproducable. I can recall it was fixed about a year ago, but then
>> broke again.
> 
> This is an unrelated bug that has also been discussed.  I believe it
> even affects read-only mounts of ext2 file systems.

Yeah, be sure to unmount manually before shutting down.

Jon