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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:29:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS hang on rmdir(2) with 5.0-current client, server 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021003092851.55617G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210030943.aa86349@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Ian Dowse wrote:

> In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021003020248.53997J-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe
> rt Watson writes:
> >> > It looks like the client is basically hung waiting for an RPC response.
> >> > I'd be glad to provide more debugging information if someone can point me
> >> > in the right direction.
> >> 
> >> I haven't seen this seen this problem with a 5.0-CURRENT client and a
> >> 4.7-PRERELEASE server, so as near as I can tell the client side isn't
> >> totally hosed. 
> >
> >Interesting observation: rm on files, and rmdir on empty directories
> >doesn't trigger it, but attempt to rmdir on a non-empty directory does. 
> 
> This an NFSv2 mount, and I think the problem is specific to NFSv2.
> Something like the following patch should fix it. I probably missed
> this in revision 1.112 when fixing some similar issues in other
> server op functions. See the commit message for that revision for
> further details.

You are right--for whatever reason, we mount NFSv2 as the default in a
diskless boot, and the patch you provide me with seems to clear up the
problem.

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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