Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 08:46:54 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/3771 NFS hangs when writing to local FS re-mounted via NFS Message-ID: <199706041546.IAA09459@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:39:37 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604163815.394D-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604163815.394D-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> There is a deadly embrace style deadlock when you loopback mount > a filesystem using NFSv3. I don't plan to try and fix this since > I don't think loopback mounts are useful other than for trivial > testing. What is it about the loopback interface that's different? This affects CVSup to localhost too (with a deadlock), and that is sometimes useful. I can't see how it could happen unless the loopback interface is failing to behave like a stream transport is supposed to behave. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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