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Date:      Sun, 1 Mar 1998 09:48:14 -0600
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, joe@via.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help - make world fails
Message-ID:  <19980301094814.32295@mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803010741.CAA01681@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 02:41:21AM -0500
References:  <19980228234146.52327@mcs.net> <199803010741.CAA01681@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 02:41:21AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> Karl Denninger said:
> > 
> > I'm still trying to find out where -CURRENT is right now in terms of
> > stability and what does/doesn't work.  As a result this is pretty germane to
> > me at the moment, but I don't have commit access and don't understand why
> > those changes were made anyway (which means I wouldn't back them out without
> > knowing).
> > 
> I am NOT super-happy with NFS yet.  I have a regression and performance
> test suite that I run before committing VM code (believe it or not), and
> NFS doesn't pass a critical test (paging.)  It panics the system with
> an infamous biodone error, and I will try to track it down tomorrow.
> 
> I am freezing the current state of my VM work, except for bugfixes,
> and perhaps some threads or AIO things (which are not part of the
> core system.)  Hopefully, we will be stable (with some anecdotal
> evidence) soon, and I want to track (watch) the VFS layering changes
> carefully.  All of the above will fill my available time.
> 
> I think that the system is very close to stable again, with the
> NFS caveat.  Once I can solve the (very reproduceable) problem,
> I will be much happier with NFS.  There are also some outstanding


That's what I thought the state of things was....  This is NFS on the client
side, right?  Do you know of any problems with NFS on the *server* side?

Please keep the lists posted on what you find and fix - the commit logs come
across in volume, and sometimes I miss an important one.

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