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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:20:51 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Mounting devfs on /dev
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On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> > (At first only the unmount process seemed to be hung - ps was able to
> > run and should the process hanging on vgone.  Now ps in ddb show that
> > many processes are hanging on ufslk2.  I thought that this problem was
> > fixed.)
> 
> I've experienced the same yesterday.  I didn't care for the hanging
> umount, and proceeded using the machine.  

That might explain why reboot doesn't complete its job when
devfs is mounted.  I always have to hit reset to complete the
reboot.

-john