From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 12 13:25:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07BC514CD0 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA23074; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:25:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Conrad Minshall Cc: "David E. Cross" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -STABLE, panic #15 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks conrad.. All the appropriate FreeBSD people were at usenix.. (didn't see you there......) julian On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Conrad Minshall wrote: > >So far my conclusions > >have led me to a race in unlink and NFS somewhere (still have no clue where). > >And it is only from Sun clients to date. Also, this started happening in > >ernest arround when we put the latest patches on our Suns (this hadn't been > >mentioned before.) seeing how I can reliably reproduce this panic (I am trying > >today's STABLE now to see if I still can), does anyone have anything they > >would like me to try. > > OK, my NFS internals expertise is on another BSD derivative, but... > > If you haven't already done so, I suggest you test with all your clients > mounting from the server using NFS version 2 rather than 3. Note the > Solaris clients probably try V3 first and fallback to V2 so you might be > able to disable V3 on your server somehow, saving the admin hassle of > changing a large number of clients. Of course if you're using an > automounter you already have a central point for the change. > > > -- > Conrad Minshall ... conrad@apple.com ... 408 974-2749 > Apple Computer ... Mac OS X Core Operating Systems ... Filesystems & Kernel > Alternative email address: rad@acm.org. > > "Bother" said Pooh as he uninstalled MS Windows. > Oh gosh I just had to laugh... > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message