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Date:      Thu, 23 Apr 1998 18:31:53 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Patrik Kudo <kudo@partitur.se>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NFS corruption
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.980423182628.19250A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980423110519.4245C-100000@koto.partitur.se>

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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Patrik Kudo wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Michael Hancock wrote:
> 
> > I feel confident that the patches DTRT.  Kirk wanted to see them fixed and
> > after going through the code I can see why.  They weren't done earlier
> > because the scope of the changes seemed very large, but it wasn't all that
> > bad.  There were over 700 vrele and vput calls, but it appears that only
> > about 10 to 15 percent of them were bogusly placed. 
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure we have concensus, but I would like to have someone test
> > NFS and ext2fs since I've only done compile testing on those file systems.
> > Note the patches for these two file systems were very straight forward
> > compared to the ones for unionfs so I'm confident that they are fine.  If
> > anyone has the resources to test then please download the patches at...
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~mch/vop1a.diff
> 
> I have some problems that I think are NFS related. I have not followed
> this entire thread, so I don't know if this patch will help me, but I'll
> give it a try anyway.

Thanks, I'd appreciate it.  The patches are only a start to fixing bigger
problems.

> My problem is that programms that access files over NFS somtimes locks
> totaly and won't be killed. The kernel and userland are built on sources
> from 980413 and patched with CAM from the same date.
> 
> Is this similar to problems reported earlier?

It sounds similar to some of the things Karl was reporting earlier.  The
recent reports concern corruption in files. 

Regards,


Mike


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