From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jun 4 08:47:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA05477 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:47:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA05467 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA09459; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706041546.IAA09459@austin.polstra.com> To: Doug Rabson cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/3771 NFS hangs when writing to local FS re-mounted via NFS In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:39:37 BST." References: Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 08:46:54 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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