Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:36:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Message-ID: <199903211836.LAA14073@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpsob2pcmg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Mar 19, 99 01:05:43 am
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> > NFS continues, after many many years, to virtually lock up systems > > when the server goes away and anything on it is in the path. If you > > try to dismount it locks up also. > > That's a feature, and it can easily be turned off. > > "Users continue, after many years, to refuse to read documentation, > and blame their incompetence on the OS and its developers...." Making the thing fail with ESTALE on a server reboot is probably not as interesting to him as making the client recover from a server reboot. There was a recent posting on either -chat or -advocacy from an engineer at Apple working on Rhapsody (Mac Server X) using FreeBSD and NetBSD code. Apple has (apparently) corrected a lot of the NFS bogosity (amazing what you can do by ignoring the outside world and working within your own source tree), and the posting indicated a willingness (and a desire) to get these changes integrated back into FreeBSD. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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