From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 23 02:32:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04775 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:32:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04768 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:32:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id JAA19311; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 09:31:53 GMT Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 18:31:53 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Patrik Kudo cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: NFS corruption In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Patrik Kudo wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Michael Hancock wrote: > > > I feel confident that the patches DTRT. Kirk wanted to see them fixed and > > after going through the code I can see why. They weren't done earlier > > because the scope of the changes seemed very large, but it wasn't all that > > bad. There were over 700 vrele and vput calls, but it appears that only > > about 10 to 15 percent of them were bogusly placed. > > > > I'm pretty sure we have concensus, but I would like to have someone test > > NFS and ext2fs since I've only done compile testing on those file systems. > > Note the patches for these two file systems were very straight forward > > compared to the ones for unionfs so I'm confident that they are fine. If > > anyone has the resources to test then please download the patches at... > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~mch/vop1a.diff > > I have some problems that I think are NFS related. I have not followed > this entire thread, so I don't know if this patch will help me, but I'll > give it a try anyway. Thanks, I'd appreciate it. The patches are only a start to fixing bigger problems. > My problem is that programms that access files over NFS somtimes locks > totaly and won't be killed. The kernel and userland are built on sources > from 980413 and patched with CAM from the same date. > > Is this similar to problems reported earlier? It sounds similar to some of the things Karl was reporting earlier. The recent reports concern corruption in files. Regards, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message