From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 10:50:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA28865 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:50:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA28858 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA06162; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:47:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610211747.KAA06162@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NFS node: disappearing directory To: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:47:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, michaelh@cet.co.jp, karl@Mcs.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Oct 21, 96 11:11:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Depends on the FS. For NFS, "bogus cookie handling memory which was > > allocated for fear the user buffer would be too small to return the > > data". > > > > The problem is cookie related. The fix is to get rid of the cookie > > code. > > The problem is cookie related but in the client. The cookie stuff Terry > is going on about is in the server which is irrelavent to this bug. Correct me if I'm wrong, but real filesystems don't use the cookie code: only the NFS server. If it's in the client code, how does this enter into it? The client is a real FS... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.