From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 10:23:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA17342 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA17336 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA08106; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:19:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610221719.KAA08106@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NFS node: disappearing directory To: dfr@render.com Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:19:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, michaelh@cet.co.jp, karl@Mcs.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Oct 22, 96 09:55:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > If it's in the client code, how does this enter into it? The client is > > a real FS... > > The NFS protocol uses the cookies themselves. The NFS client code speaks > the NFS protocol and therefore *must* use cookies. It does *not* use the > extra cookie interface to the VOP_READDIR call. Ah. I see your problem. I was talking about the server problem caused by the search restart, which *is* cookie related. There's an unfortunate multiple use of the word "cookie" here... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.