From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 17:00:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06122 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:00:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06116 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03335; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:00:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd003265; Mon Oct 19 17:00:23 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA19037; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:00:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810200000.RAA19037@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: -current NFS problem To: mark@vmunix.com (Mark Mayo) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:00:12 +0000 (GMT) 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 In-Reply-To: <19981019193416.A28045@vmunix.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Oct 19, 98 07:34:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message