[987] in Athena Bugs
df, all releases.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Kubiatowicz)
Mon Sep 19 19:33:20 1988
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 88 19:32:43 EDT
From: John D. Kubiatowicz <kubitron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
I just noticed an interesting bit of lossage with df. I attempted to
use "df /" to see if my root partition was overfull. This hung. Reason?
Near as I can tell, it was because priam was hosed (I had priam:mit
mounted).
Two things:
1) df shouldn't be looking at priam when I am just requesting a
look at my root partition.
2) This whole issue of hard vs soft mounting file systems
should be considered again. I have had many a workstation
hosed because a file-system went south. Programs attempting
to access dead servers which are hard-mounted tend to
get locked in disk wait (D). This is bad. Only two
remedies exist--reboot or hope the server comes up
soon.
Ack!!!!!!
--KUBI--
p.s. Things were fine as soon as priam returned to the land of the living.
