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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:04:36 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: diskless/rm causing deadlock?
Message-ID:  <20070404160436.GA59964@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1HZ1Go-000DYB-KZ@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <E1HZ1Go-000DYB-KZ@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>

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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:55:10AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> I stumbled on this in -current, but it's also true for 6.2.
> /(root) is mounted diskless, doing rm of a file in /, even as a lowly mor=
tal
> will hang the network, and hence everything.
> on a 6.1 system, it works as expected.
>=20
> badwolf> rm /usr/ports
> rm: /usr/ports: Read-only file system
>=20
> i'll try to hunt this down, but some pointers where to start might be
> helpfull

Start with a tcpdump of network traffic.  CC mohans@ :)

I have seen something similar myself, but have not yet tracked it down.

Kris

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