> If there isn't swapping and a process is stuck in down, then
> something has deadlocked and needs to be fixed.
--- Is it just 'down', or should there never be an 'unkillable' user-level process? I.e. -- in SunOS, you could mount NFS as intr, or not. Basically if you were mounted 'hard' and didn't specify 'intr', you couldn't interrupt a process with kill -9 that was trying to access a hard mounted filesystem. So even if your sever went down -- you couldn't kill it. This is consistent with the unix paradigm of a single fs write being indivisible.If you specified 'intr', you could kill -9 or control-c out of the read/write.
Does Linux not have a similar semantic for NFS? Would it have such a 'special case' anywhere else?
-l
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