Re: Disk errors and Reiserfs (/proc also)

[Ricardo Galli]

> Thats a reiserfs property and one you'll find in pretty much any other
> fs
...
> Killing the process isnt neccessary, its been halted in its tracks. As
> to a clean shutdown - no chance. You've just hit a disk failure, the on
> disk

Not true, it's not only on ReiserFS and disk failures.

I also saw this behaviour on proc:

$ cat /proc/dri/0/vma

for example.

000  1000 15186 14534   9   0  1272  368 down   D    pts/0      0:00 cat 0/vma

In such cases, just forget that tty.

--ricardo