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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: Alex Stewart <alex@foogod.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lazy umount (1/4)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:56:28 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109180453270.25323-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010918023942.A28179@emma1.emma.line.org>



On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Well, you cannot tell your local power plant "you must not fail this
> very moment" either. Of course, data will be lost when a process is
> killed from "D" state, but if the admin can tell the data will be lost
> either way, ... 

Gaack... Just how do you kill a process that holds a bunch of semaphores
and got blocked on attempt to take one more?  It's not about lost data,
it's about completely screwed kernel.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-18  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-14 19:01 [PATCH] lazy umount (1/4) Alexander Viro
2001-09-14 19:02 ` [PATCH] lazy umount (2/4) Alexander Viro
2001-09-14 19:03   ` [PATCH] lazy umount (3/4) Alexander Viro
2001-09-14 19:03     ` [PATCH] lazy umount (4/4) Alexander Viro
2001-09-14 20:43 ` [PATCH] lazy umount (1/4) Linus Torvalds
2001-09-14 20:54   ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-15 12:32 ` jlnance
2001-09-15 20:51   ` Mike Fedyk
2001-09-17 10:06     ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-16 16:37 ` Alex Stewart
2001-09-17  6:57   ` Forced umount (was lazy umount) Ville Herva
2001-09-17  7:03     ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-09-17  8:38       ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-17 10:21         ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-17 10:47           ` Tigran Aivazian
2001-09-17 23:21             ` Alex Stewart
2001-09-17 23:23             ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-18  1:04               ` Alex Stewart
2001-09-18 20:19                 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-17  8:29   ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-17  8:39     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-17 10:04 ` [PATCH] lazy umount (1/4) Matthias Andree
2001-09-17 12:13   ` Alan Cox
2001-09-18  0:24     ` Alex Stewart
2001-09-18  0:39       ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-18  8:56         ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2001-09-18  9:08           ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-18 13:03             ` Alan Cox
2001-09-18  9:07     ` David Woodhouse
2001-09-17 14:43 ` David Woodhouse

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