UFS2 and/or sparse file bug causing copy process to land in 'D''
state?
Carl
k0802647 at telus.net
Sun Feb 22 19:43:44 PST 2009
Kevin Day wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Carl wrote:
>> Is there some other way to forcibly reboot a remote system from the
>> command line when a normal shutdown command is going to totally hang
>> the system in this way? Or perhaps some kind of watchdog that has a
>> good chance of surviving long enough to unjam a situation like this?
>
> reboot(8)'s man page:
>
> -n The file system cache is not flushed. This option should
> probably not be used.
>
> -q The system is halted or restarted quickly and ungracefully,
> and only the flushing of the file system cache is
> performed (if the -n option is not specified). This
> option should probably not be used.
>
> One or both of those would probably do it.
Obviously I need to work on RTFM. I didn't look past shutdown(8). In my
defence... I've got nothing. Thanks Kevin :-)
A watchdog would still be valuable for those situations when one
attempts a normal remote reboot, the system hangs, and sshd dies with it.
Carl / K0802647
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