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To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
From: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za>
Subject: Re: Filesystem wedges caused by r251446
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Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> 
> Care to provide any useful information ?
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-deadlocks.html

Well, the system doesn't deadlock it's perfectly useable so long
as you don't touch the file that's wedged.  A lot of the time the
userland process is unkillable, but often it is killable.  How do
I get from from the PID to where the FS is stuck in the kernel?

Ian

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Ian Freislich