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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:58:41 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.NET>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Alex G. Bulushev" <bag@sinbin.demos.su>, Daniel Rock <rock@cs.uni-sb.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -current NFS problem 
Message-ID:  <199810150258.TAA07046@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:16:21 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810142214160.20984-100000@zone.syracuse.NET> 

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>Well, according to Jordan's "non-verification" to my alluding that since
>Dr. McKusick was committing NFS deltas, he was the mysterious contracted
>NFS fixer-upper. Last time I checked, he didn't really do his entire job
>if that was to totally fix NFS.... but hey, I don't use NFS much if ever,
>so I won't Complain...

   Kirk was contracted to fix the problems that he could fix in a short amount
of time. He did that and confirmed my own analysis of the remaining problems,
which basically all stem from lack of FS node locking in the NFS code. Adding
such locking opens a very large can of worms and everyone who has tried to
do this has failed.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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