Re: Giving up on x buffers - losing files

From: Kalev Lember (kalev_at_colleduc.ee)
Date: 06/28/04

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    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. 

    -- 
Kalev
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