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From: eirik@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Eirik Fuller)
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Subject: Re: tmpfs
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 321, message 12

In a previous posting I described a problem with tmpfs, in which
processes can get stuck in disk wait trying to read a directory.

Since then a Sun engineer found a way to repeat this problem, based on
data from our kernel core dump.  One of our users had made a hard link
to a directory in /tmp/, and this, apparently, caused the problem.

It sounds like the fix will cure both problems, that tmpfs allows mere
mortals to hard link directories, and the problems that ensue.