From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 27 03:46:40 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA15929 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 03:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiley.csusb.edu (wiley.csusb.edu [139.182.2.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id DAA15924 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 03:46:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wwong@localhost) by wiley.csusb.edu (8.8.4/8.6.11) id DAA15780; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 03:40:28 -0800 (PST) From: William Wong Message-Id: <199612271140.DAA15780@wiley.csusb.edu> Subject: Re: [2.2-BETA] NFS hangup! To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 03:40:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199612270856.JAA03454@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 27, 96 09:56:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] 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 > > As Naoki Hamada wrote: > > > This morning I encountered a sudden hangup and found out what is the > > case. On a NFS imported filesystem, when I execute the following > > sequence, the PC totally hangs up after the `mv' command. > > > > % mkdir -p tmp/tmp > > % mv tmp/tmp . > > I get the dreaded > > panic: nfs: sillyrename dir > > when trying this. (Both, client and server are FreeBSD.) > > Doesn't this ring a bell for somebody? > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > > Yep, I remember hangs like that way back when I was using FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and mounting filesystems off of some IBM RS/6000 machines running AIX 3.x. I guess these problems are pretty lengendary. :) -- William T. Wong Assistant Network Analyst Cal State University, San Bernardino Phone: (909) 880-7281 email: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu