From f2dba1529b1b3ad3163316e8acc7a383ff7b0e7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:41:39 +0200 Subject: open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem: New. --- open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn diff --git a/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn b/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f1fbb4e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] + +\#hurd, 2010, end of May / beginning of June + + [runnign sync, but sill unclean filesystem at next boot] + guillem: when libpager syncs an object, it sends an m_o_lock_request and waits (if the synchronous argument was specified) for a m_o_lock_completed. But m_o_lock_completed only means that dirty pages have been sent to the translator, and this one still needs to write them to the backing storage + guillem: there's no problem if sync() returns before actually writting the changes to disk, but this also happens when shutting down the translator + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3