Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:34:30 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Maybe a showstopper, maybe not. Message-ID: <19970311113430.12259@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199703111936.LAA17003@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970310211652.24717A-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970311110509.23141G-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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I believe John Fieber scribbled this message on Mar 11: > On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > > If I'm the only person having problems with it, then I won't worry about > > it too much, other than to not use FreeBSD on the boxes that will be > > accessing it. But I was curious if anybody else was seeing problems with > > it. > > I'm not NFS expert, but I'll describe one problem I have with the > 2.2 branch. The situation is a Solaris client mounting a disk > from my FreeBSD box. On a large directory tree, doing an `rm -r' > on the Solaris box misses files. It takes multiple invocations > of `rm -r' to actually clean everything out. hmm.... actually I saw something like this the other day... I was cleaning out directories from my DOS machine (which nfs mounted my OLD 2.2-960801-SNAP machine)... and files were being left behind... sometimes it would get them all... other times not... I can't remeber if this has happened before... but I normally don't delete files from my dos box... :) just another data point... -- John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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