Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:02:42 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: bartol@salk.edu Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with NFS in -current Message-ID: <199801270202.VAA25018@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980126155639.292A-100000@dale.salk.edu> from Tom Bartol at "Jan 26, 98 04:31:48 pm"
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Tom Bartol said: > > Hi all, > > -- I just ran a script which redirected it's standard out and standard > error to a log file (i.e. blah >& logfile ) and did a tail -f on the log > file where logfile was on an NFS-mounted filesystem. All looked fine so I > quit from the tail process and then did the tail -f again a moment later > but this time the file look corrupted at the end. I then did a cat on the > file and it was indeed corrupted at the end of the file (full of ^@ > characters inserted in the file during the time I was viewing the file > with tail, but good data for the time when I was not viewing the file). I > can replicate the problem reliably on NFS filesystems but the problem does > not occur on local filesystems. > Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what else is wrong :-). Mmap and friends are still problematical on NFS, but they are definitely fixable. ... Wierd but funny stuff removed > > Is this the feedback on -current you were looking for, John? > yes, actually thanks for prompt feedback, while I still understand the code :-). -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.
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