Re: Large numbers of files.

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 08:48:39 +0200 (MEST)

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> If you run this until it errors out from a full file-system, you
> (may) find....
>
> # rm -r /tmp <SEGFAULTS>
> # rm /tmp/file.00000000 <waits forever and can't be killed>
> # ls /tmp <waits forever and can't be killed>
> # vi /tmp/file.00000000 <waits forever and can't be killed>

My guess is that the segfault is a kernel oops. (Look in your favorite
logfile). This killed the program before it finished the "rm" which
holds a lock on the directory.

Roger. 

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