Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:56:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lazy umount (1/4) |
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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.
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