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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:51:05 +0000
From:      James Raynard <fbugs@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        ji@research.att.com
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/5155: nullfs on top of nfs seems to be hanging machine running 2.2.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <19971126225105.19102@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199711260843.AAA00959@hub.freebsd.org>; from ji@research.att.com on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 12:43:00AM -0800
References:  <199711260843.AAA00959@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 12:43:00AM -0800, ji@research.att.com wrote:
> 
> Doing a null-fs mount of an NFS-mounted directory hangs machine when there is 
> a lot of filesystem I/O involving the nullfs mount
> >Fix:
> Unknown. I wonder if this is a known problem, if anyone else is

nullfs is basically not claimed to work (see LINT).  Some work has
been done recently on it in -current; perhaps you could try adding the
patches, if you feel adventurous.

-- 
In theory, theory is better than practice.  In practice, it isn't.
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland.   http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/



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