In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kevin Oberman" writes:
>> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:37:45 +0100
>> From: Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> when I rebooted my 5.2-BETA (kernel about 24 hours old), it gave up on
>> flushing 4 dirty blocks.
>> 
>> I had three UFS1 softdep file systems mounted on one ATA drive, one ext2
>> file system on another ATA drive and one ext2 file system on a SCSI
>> drive.  Both ext2 file systems had been mounted read-only, so they can't
>> have had dirty blocks.
>> 
>> At the next reboot, FreeBSD checked all three UFS file systems as they
>> hadn't been umounted cleanly before. Makes me wonder if FreeBSD gave up
>> on the super blocks...
>
>This looks like a GEOM related issue, although I am not completely sure
>of this.

Why do you think it has anything to do with GEOM ?

When we give up on buffers, then superblocks are likely victims, in particular
when softupdates dependencies are involved.

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