On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 07:28 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > Is it really NFS-related? I was trying to back up my 2.6.23-rc8 system > > to an external USB drive the other day when something flaked and the > > drive fell off the bus. That, too, was sufficient to wedge the entire > > system, even though the only thing which needed the dead drive was one > > rsync process. It's kind of a bummer to have to hit the reset button > > after the failure of (what should be) a non-critical piece of hardware. > > > > Not that I have a fix to propose...:) > > the per bdi work in -mm should make the system not drop dead. > > Still, would a remove,re-insert of the usb media end up with the same > bdi? That is, would it recognise as the same and resume the transfer. Removal and replacement of the media might work. I have never tried it. But Jon described removal of the device, not the media. Replacing the device definitely will not work. Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
