From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 26 17:57:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13172 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:57:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA13139 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:57:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from dale.salk.edu (dale [198.202.70.112]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA13252 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:31:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:31:48 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol Reply-To: Tom Bartol To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems with NFS in -current Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi all, With all the recent talk about -current possibly being stable enough to update to again I thought I'd give it a try. I've just made world and am -current as of ~10PM PST Jan 25 and, well, X seems to be running fine, and I can read my e-mail in pine via an NFS-mounted /var/mail, I'm sending this e-mail from the machine in question, and my home dir and all of /usr/local is NFS-mounted. However I just observed the following glitch -- I just ran a script which redirected it's standard out and standard error to a log file (i.e. blah >& logfile ) and did a tail -f on the log file where logfile was on an NFS-mounted filesystem. All looked fine so I quit from the tail process and then did the tail -f again a moment later but this time the file look corrupted at the end. I then did a cat on the file and it was indeed corrupted at the end of the file (full of ^@ characters inserted in the file during the time I was viewing the file with tail, but good data for the time when I was not viewing the file). I can replicate the problem reliably on NFS filesystems but the problem does not occur on local filesystems. I'd like to buy John a beer too, right along with the rest of you, but what I'd really like to do is buy John and every one of us a John Dyson clone! (I'm a scientist at the Salk Institute, I know what I'm talking about, we could really do this!) ;-) But until our Dyson clones mature (will they ever mature? Do I know John well enough to make such a statement?) and earn their Ph.D's in CS we'll all have to send positive thoughts to our one and only "real" John Dyson and the rest of the FreeBSD team. Is this the feedback on -current you were looking for, John? Tom