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From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
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Subject: NFS sillyrenamedir
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 10:42:34 -0700 (MST)
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    As was pointed out earlier, the NFS system in -2.2 is still subject
to kernel panics when someone:    
    mkdir tmp ; mkdir tmp/tmp
    cd tmp
    mv tmp ..

This panic is caused by the line in nfs_vnops.c:

#ifndef DIAGNOSTIC
        if (vp->v_type == VDIR)   
                panic("nfs: sillyrename dir");
#endif

   I'm not very familiar with the FS code in FreeBSD.  Is there       
an easy fix for this (e.g. just skipping the panic code), or does it
require a more substantial change?  (Or is someone already working
on this that I missed?)

    -Dave
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