My syncing disks problem

[Matthew Dillon]

: >     are asynchronous.  And, in fact, there is a softupdates related 
: >     call that is not made for asynchronous filesystem syncs.
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: >     So, here is a patch to try.  I only give it a 30% chance of working
: >     due to the huge number of guesses I have made above.
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:It didn't work. Do you want the new crash dump?
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:Jean-Marc
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:Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz at xxxxxxxxxxx [KeyID: 400B38E9]

    Hmm.   Yes, but I'd like you to try something... try turning off 
    softupdates and if the problem still occurs I'd like a new crash dump
    and kernel.debug.

    To turn off softupdates you have to boot into single-user mode (its a
    loader menu option), then use 'tunefs -n disable <filesystem>' for
    each filesystem on the disk.  Then reboot.  After a normal boot
    'mount -v' can be used to double check that softupdates has indeed been
    turned off (if you run it now you will see it says 'soft-udpates' in
    the list of options for most of your filesystems.  After turning off
    softupdates and rebooting a mount -v should not say soft-updates for
    any of the filesystems).

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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