> >I'd like to add something about the last buffer wouldn't sync. This occurs
> >when a shutdown syscall is issued when the syncer process is asleep waiting
> >for a buffer write to complete. The write will never complete, because the
> >syncer won't be given a chance to run again, and the buffer will stay marked
> >as busy and become the buffer that wouldn't sync. I haven't thought about
> >a clean way of handling this situation, maybe some of you out there have
> >better ideas...
>
> I always thought it would make sense to have the syncer perform the shutdown
> and cleanup since it had code to write buffers with anyway...
>
This sounds like a good idea, and should be easy to implement. I'll work on
it tonight.
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
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>
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