On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Andrew Wheadon wrote:

> When I do a 'shutdown -r now' on my P90 PCI
> with two scsi-disks and an MFS mounted /tmp,
> it fails to get past the message "Syncing disks"
> [...]
> I remember that some time ago people had recognised that
> mounting mfs could cause this. Was it ever solved or do
> I have to stop using MFS (which would a terrible nuisance.)

I've been collecting some data on this problem, or at least a related
problem.  I've had trouble on both P75 and 486DX2-66 machines, to date. 
It doesn't appear that MFS is really the culprit at all; it might be a
catalyst, but I'm having occasional reboot problems on machines that never
used MFS, as well.  By occasional, I mean ever third or fourth reboot,
which for the machines in question is about once every 10 days.  It's
quite puzzling... 

--scott