From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 15 12:00:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25949 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25930 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:00:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA19065; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:00:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:00:46 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902152000.MAA19065@apollo.backplane.com> To: Dom Mitchell Cc: "Jose M. Alcaide" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easily reproducible NFS-related panic References: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> cd /mnt :> ln /bin/ls . --> this complaints about cross-device link, OK :> ln /bin/ls . --> (yes, again) :> panic: vrele: negative ref cnt --> CRASH!!! :> :> I have confirmed this with recent 3.0-STABLE and 3.1-BETA clients :> and servers, and also with a Solaris 2.5.1 NFS server. However, :> it does not happen on a 2.2.8-RELEASE client. :> :> Some feedback from the NFS gurus ;-) would be very useful. : :A fix for this has just recently been committed to 4.0. Look through :-current in the last week for mail from myself, matt dillon and a couple :of others about "negative ref cnt". It's a simple one line patch to :fix. I'm not sure if Matt has committed the fix to -stable yet. :-- :Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator : : Free your mind -- http://www.opensource.org/ Yes, it's been backported. It made it into 3.1. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message