Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:12:00 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coda-client and kernel panic Message-ID: <46943C70.1080500@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070711014204.GE5824@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> References: <2c84c1de0707060800t21f3f993mfb53f7975a881ed4@mail.gmail.com> <2c84c1de0707100453j9570769vfd19fea05ae11f76@mail.gmail.com> <20070711005300.V8913@fledge.watson.org> <20070711014204.GE5824@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>
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Jan Harkes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:58:30AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Aristeu Gil Alves Jr wrote: >>> 2007/7/6, Aristeu Gil Alves Jr <aristeu.jr@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> I'm using a 6.2-RELEASE-p4, updated with freebsd-update. Installed >>>> coda-client-6.1.2 from ports. I'm having the same problems that were >>>> submitted on April 2006 for 7.0-CURRENT [1]. > > The kernel patches I sent are part of the solution. You also need to > update Coda's userspace to the latest release, 6.9.1 which is not in > ports. That version adds the necessary support for the new nmount system > call and it is also the version that I used when testing the kernel > patches. > >> The FreeBSD Project has a long history of granting commit rights to Coda >> developers in order to allow Coda developers to maintain the in-kernel Coda >> module -- Bob Baron, myself, and later Shafeeq Sinnamohideen. I believe >> Shafeeq may still be affiliated with, or at least in the general physical >> vicinity of, the Coda Project. I sent him e-mail in early June asking what >> the status of the Coda work was, and what, if anything, to do about the >> kernel module--I didn't hear back. I see Jan has just submitted a number > > I bump into Shafeeq once in a while around campus, but nowadays he is > pretty much in full thesis writing mode, which may explain why he has > dropped off of the face of the earth. > >> 7.0 beta series starts. There has been discussion of removing the Coda >> module from the kernel tree on the basis that it has been, until the last >> day or so, effectively unmaintained for several years. However, if it's > > I hadn't heard those rumours, is there some other list besides > freebsd-fs that I should subscribe to? Jan - I think it was on -current, and it was a brief discussion if I recall. Jan actually sent me the patches back in May, but I had some initial issues with them (from some changes in -CURRENT), and then I had two major things happen (new baby and new job at a startup) so I had *zero* time to finish looking at the patches (sorry Jan!). If it's worth anything, I can try to at least do some quick testing with it, and then I think it should be committed - at least it can't be as bad as what's in the tree already. :) Eric
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