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Date:      Wed, 04 Jun 1997 08:46:54 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/3771 NFS hangs when writing to local FS re-mounted via NFS 
Message-ID:  <199706041546.IAA09459@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:39:37 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604163815.394D-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604163815.394D-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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> There is a deadly embrace style deadlock when you loopback mount
> a filesystem using NFSv3.  I don't plan to try and fix this since
> I don't think loopback mounts are useful other than for trivial
> testing.

What is it about the loopback interface that's different?  This
affects CVSup to localhost too (with a deadlock), and that is
sometimes useful.  I can't see how it could happen unless the
loopback interface is failing to behave like a stream transport
is supposed to behave.
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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