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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:04:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alright, who's the smart alleck that fixed NFS this last week? , :) , WAS: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers  , files)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990421130205.11384x-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <199904211720.KAA06806@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :2 questions I had:
> :
> :2) at BAFUG 2 or 3 months ago I, *cough* attempted to keep up with you
> :an Julian talking about VM issues. :)  Something you guys brought up
> :was problems with mmap() + read()/write() no staying in sync and requireing
> :an msync() to correctly syncronize.  I really didn't understand how this 
> :could happen except recently I figured that my first question could be
> :the answer.  Does this problem only happen on NFS mounted dirs?  Is it
> :fixed?
> :
> :thanks again,
> :-Alfred
> 
>     This should not be an issue any more for either UFS or NFS.  If people
>     find that it is an issue, there's a bug somewhere that needs to be
>     addressed.  This *was* an issue for NFS prior to the patch set.

Ok, so is this what you and Julian were discussing about coherency
issues?  And it is fixed... cool. :)

-Alfred




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