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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:00:12 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mark@vmunix.com (Mark Mayo)
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, tlambert@primenet.com, dg@root.com, green@zone.syracuse.NET, grog@lemis.com, julian@whistle.com, bag@sinbin.demos.su, rock@cs.uni-sb.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -current NFS problem
Message-ID:  <199810200000.RAA19037@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981019193416.A28045@vmunix.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Oct 19, 98 07:34:16 pm

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> > > Has anyone asked Rick Macklem about this?
> > 
> > Rick bowed out of the NFS game a long time ago.  Kirk would be a better 
> > bet.

[ ... ]

> In general, he's not interested in helping FreeBSD in any way, since
> he thinks the code has become too "polluted" and "complicated" now.
> (which I would disagree with.. initial inspection by myself a while
> ago suggested that not much at all has really changed..)

I'd agree with him, starting with the "cookie" for VOP_READDIR.


> As for any other help, as I said, give me a list of specific questions
> and I'll do my best to get answers.

I think if we get one shot at this, the list of questions should be
agreed upon.

My main question would be:

o	Do you see any reason why nfsnode locking should be necessary?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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