Re: Reverting "libdiskfs: Shutdown pagers on startup_dosync."

[Justus Winter]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> writes:

> Justus Winter, on mer. 17 janv. 2018 11:36:00 +0100, wrote:
>> I'm still convinced that shutting down the servers is the right thing to
>> do.  The alternative is that the filesystem goes away with an unclean
>> disk image.
>
> It's not unclean since after inhibiting more RPCs we resync everything
> and wait for that to finish.  But shutting down properly would be
> better, yes.

But at some point we make the image read-only, and at that point there
are still other servers running.  If other servers are running, they use
some pagers.  Iirc if a library is in use (i.e. a pager is in use) at
system shutdown, we get those 'deleted inode has X links(?), should be
zero' issues.  And these do pile up.

Justus