From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 08:55:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D215416A404; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:55:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (cs1.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF0A13C4B0; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:55:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by cs1.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1HZ1Go-000DYB-KZ; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:55:10 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:55:10 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: diskless/rm causing deadlock? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:55:11 -0000 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