diskless/rm causing deadlock?

[Danny Braniss]

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 mortal
will hang the network, and hence everything.
on a 6.1 system, it works as expected.

badwolf> rm /usr/ports
rm: /usr/ports: Read-only file system

i'll try to hunt this down, but some pointers where to start might be
helpfull

danny

[Kris Kennaway]

[Danny Braniss]

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Post by Danny Braniss
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=

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Post by Danny Braniss
will hang the network, and hence everything.
on a 6.1 system, it works as expected.
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badwolf> rm /usr/ports
rm: /usr/ports: Read-only file system
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i'll try to hunt this down, but some pointers where to start might be
helpfull

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

it's because / is mounted NFS/V2 - so the 'bug' must be in the V2 stack.

danny