I/O hang when removing a large file

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • I/O hang when removing a large file.

  • The customer was removing 80GB file that was on cciss device when rm command hang.

    #!/bin/sh
    
    while true
    do
    cp zero.dat1 zero.dat2
    rm zero.dat2
    date
    done
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 x86_64

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