Re: Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how?

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On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:04:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:50:51AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:58:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > Besides, does the reboot system call actually get the BKL? I don't think
> > > it should need it..
> >
> > Actually, the machine in question turned out to be UP :)
> >
> > However, it does have RAID 1 and the notifier call chain stuff looks like
> > a killer to me since it leads to do_md_stop.
> >
> > Perhaps we need a RESTART3 that restarts without notifying?
>
> Interesting...
>
> I have an oldworld ppc mac with RAID1 compiled on 2.2.19, and a bad floppy
> made badblocks unkillable.

I think that was probably because the pmac floppy driver has some issues..

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