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Subject: Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step 
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From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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I should point out that FSX can be used against any filesystem, and
that there are reports locally (at Apple) that it's great for killing
FreeBSD machines.  I wasn't able to reproduce this when I tried, but I
may not have let it run long enough.

>     Oooh.  Very cool!  I'll start messing with it (oops, that's going to
>     make both Paul and Alfred annoyed with me!)

8)

> :I'm also trying to determine which of the fixes Apple has made to NFS might
> :be adapted to FreeBSD, something which is made more difficult by the fact
> :that much of the code was taken straight from 4.4 Lite some time back and
> :both operating systems have diverged significantly since then.

Many of the key issues in making OS X NFS work were related to its
interaction with the UBC and the subtly different VFS semantics,
although the same issues probably exist in different form in the
FreeBSD code.  I get dragged into some really shocking corridor
discussions every now and then. 8)

 = Mike


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