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

From: Stefan Traby (stefan@hello-penguin.com)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2001 - 00:08:46 EST

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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