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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:19:29 +0100
From:      "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: easily reproducible NFS-related panic
Message-ID:  <36C8B991.8818166D@we.lc.ehu.es>
References:  <E10CU4h-00042Z-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> <199902152000.MAA19065@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :>   cd /mnt
> :>   ln /bin/ls .   --> this complaints about cross-device link, OK
> :>   ln /bin/ls .   --> (yes, again)
> :>   panic: vrele: negative ref cnt     --> CRASH!!!
> :>
> :> I have confirmed this with recent 3.0-STABLE and 3.1-BETA clients
> :> and servers, and also with a Solaris 2.5.1 NFS server. However,
> :> it does not happen on a 2.2.8-RELEASE client.
> :>
> :> Some feedback from the NFS gurus ;-) would be very useful.
> :
> :A fix for this has just recently been committed to 4.0.  Look through
> :-current in the last week for mail from myself, matt dillon and a couple
> :of others about "negative ref cnt".  It's a simple one line patch to
> :fix.  I'm not sure if Matt has committed the fix to -stable yet.
> :--
> :Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
> :
> :       Free your mind -- http://www.opensource.org/
> 
>     Yes, it's been backported.  It made it into 3.1.
> 

Thank you! I remember some messages about a "negative ref cnt" in
freebsd-current some days ago, but I think that the original poster
said that his problem was related to SMP, so I did not followed the
thread.

-- JMA
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