Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
From: yvette hirth <yvette at dbtgroup.com> > Matt Graham wrote: >> Under Linux, a process in state D (waiting for a syscall to return) >> *cannot* be killed, even with SIGKILL. The kernel programmers found >> a number of circumstances where terminating a process in state D >> could lead to Undefined Behavior > perhaps the kernel and/or filesystem drivers should be upgraded to > recognize when the userspace is abending / no longer present and cancel > all pending i/o for that userspace. http://crow202.org/17 , look at the more detailed description in that comp.os.linux.misc message, and figure out how to address all the concerns there before continuing. > this is what z/OS does. Good for it. Does z/OS do DRBD? No? Then this has gone a tiny bit offtopic.... -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see