Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?
On 2008-05-10 09:18 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I know that dpkg takes steps to unlink files without actually deleting
> them during an upgrade, so your suggestion makes some sense, but I'm not
> quite sure why the system would need to keep inodes open for writing
> after that. It still seems somewhat bug-like to me.
The filesystem has to be written to after the inodes are freed, i.e. the
offending process that kept them open has exited. You would end up with
inodes that have a link count of 0, i.e. lost space on the device, if
the system would not do that.
> Shutting down X, or switching to runlevel 1, really doesn't make the
> process transparent. I really might as well reboot if that's the case,
> but that also defeats a great deal of the purpose of being able to
> upgrade a live system.
True, but I don't have a better suggestion; maybe someone else has.
Sven
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