From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Nov 26 17:22:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA10470 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:22:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA10457 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbugs@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa1028463; 27 Nov 97 0:26 GMT Received: (from fbugs@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id WAA01728; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:51:09 GMT (envelope-from fbugs) Message-ID: <19971126225105.19102@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:51:05 +0000 From: James Raynard To: ji@research.att.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/5155: nullfs on top of nfs seems to be hanging machine running 2.2.2-RELEASE References: <199711260843.AAA00959@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199711260843.AAA00959@hub.freebsd.org>; from ji@research.att.com on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 12:43:00AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 12:43:00AM -0800, ji@research.att.com wrote: > > Doing a null-fs mount of an NFS-mounted directory hangs machine when there is > a lot of filesystem I/O involving the nullfs mount > >Fix: > Unknown. I wonder if this is a known problem, if anyone else is nullfs is basically not claimed to work (see LINT). Some work has been done recently on it in -current; perhaps you could try adding the patches, if you feel adventurous. -- In theory, theory is better than practice. In practice, it isn't. James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/