Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 07:55:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@yes.no> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@yes.no> Subject: Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions? Message-ID: <199908021455.HAA13149@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990730203954.20420W-100000@cygnus.rush.net> <xzpbtcq8wzj.fsf@des.follo.net>
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:Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> writes:
:> DES: can you elaborate? you think it may cause problems with amd
:> since it's like an NFS buffer isn't it and would work over the
:> loopback...
:
:I used loopback mounts to test NFS make worlds a while ago (there were
:places where make world would bomb because chflags doesn't work on
:NFS) and experienced deadlock problems. Somebody (I don't remember who
:exactly) told me that this was a known problem with the NFSv3 code;
:reading over loopback mounts works fine, but writing apparently
:results in deadlocks. Search the archives; the commit logs should give
:you an idea of when this was (check the logs for Makefiles that use
:chflags).
:
:root@des ~# current -l -F Makefile chflags
:src/Makefile.inc1
:src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc
:src/lib/libc_r/Makefile
:src/release/Makefile
:src/sys/alpha/conf/Makefile.alpha
:src/sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386
:src/sys/pc98/conf/Makefile.pc98
:src/usr.bin/Makefile
:src/usr.bin/chflags/Makefile
:src/usr.bin/chpass/Makefile
:src/usr.bin/passwd/Makefile
:
:DES
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:Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@yes.no
The buildworld chflags problems were fixed around a month ago I think.
Since then there have been many NFS fixes committed. I have not tested
running buildworld over a loopbacked NFS mount -- I'll do that today --
but I'd say there is a good chance that it will simply work.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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