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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-07-21 19:12:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-07-21 19:12:43 +0200 |
| commit | 793a7d109946d4cfe49ea614b8e0757735414184 (patch) | |
| tree | f79e7ad2b1876b4c0d069781d17f281c41e7d6c7 | |
| parent | 6a08ff9d57897a960206787abae0d8a6198fb93e (diff) | |
open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem: Suggest syncfs -s.
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn | 6 |
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diff --git a/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn b/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn index 83c7951e..606e9393 100644 --- a/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn @@ -26,3 +26,9 @@ Also filed as [[!GNU_Savannah_bug 29292]]. <slpz> guillem: in theory, locking mechanisms in libpager should prevent this from happening by keeping track of write operations, but this seems to fail in some situations + +It helps a lot to run [[`syncfs --synchronous /`|hurd/syncfs]] before issuing +the `halt` or `reboot` command. This will prevent most of the uncleanliness. +Of course, [[hurd/translator/ext2fs]] is meant to be doing this to-disk +synchronization internally upon translator shutdown, but evidently it doesn't +in all cases. |