From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andreas Moroder <andreas.moroder@sb-brixen.it>
Subject: device completely blocked
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:14:53 +0200
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Hello,

we removed a 20 files from a directory. The rm does never end and all 
other processes that try to write to the same device are blocked.
This happen two to three times a year to our hospital server. The 
problem is that it is hard to find a time to shut down this server.

There is no way to kill the processes that access this devices. Is there 
a way to solve this problem without shuting down the machine ?
Does umount -f work on local reiserfc filesystems ?

Thanks
Andreas