Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

[Stefan Traby]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:52:31PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Stefan Traby wrote:
> 
> > Then I tried to unlink the file by running rm lfs.file log.
> > 
> > The rm process (and an ls process that I started after that)
> > are now in "D" state...
> > 
> > root      2934  0.0  0.2  1292  452 pts/5    D    05:38   0:00 ls /ramfs
> > root      2952  0.0  1.5  4028 2384 pts/3    S    05:40   0:00 vi sdlkhfd
> 
> Add UnlockPage(page) at the end of ramfs_writepage().

Shit. You are quite fast. Works.

It was the first D-state case here where sync(1) did not fall
into D-state, too. (ok, I know why :)

-- 

    Stefan
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