Subject: Re: reboot hangs
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/02/2000 11:28:52
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 05:06:07PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> I've seen this off-and-on since 1.4C.  It went away somewhere around
> 1.4H and reappeared somewhere around 1.4S.  With the debugging enabled
> in vfs_subr.c to print out busy vnodes, it's always a vnode on a MFS
> that's hung.  It seems to make sense that if the user-land mount_mfs has
> already been killed then an MFS couldn't flush any buffers, but I don't
> know why the problem comes and goes.  A couple of weeks ago I tried a
> simple ignoring of vnodes that were of type VT_MFS but that didn't work
> (I've forgotten exactly what happened).

I see this on my alpha which doesn't have MFS, nor softdep. The busy vnode
is on the root file system.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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