From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 02:53:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20341 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 02:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA20334 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 02:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA18375; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:46:56 GMT To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFSv3 (was: Maybe a showstopper...) References: <19970311194645.GS08931@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970311225100.SW24783@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970312221019.AB06345@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: Doug Rabson Date: 13 Mar 1997 10:46:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:10:19 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > Glad to hear that FreeBSD's client doesn't suffer from the same > problem. Let's see, our company is also a Sun reseller, i'll see to > get hold of someone there to make them aware of their problem. > > OTOH, the FreeBSD server is what the NFSv3 specs calls ``overly > restrictive''. Do you see any chance to make this behaviour more > benign, and hand out a new cookie verifier only if the directory has > really shrunk, and the old cookie indeed went stale? (Correct me if > this is already the case, i have no idea what affects the va_filerev.) This is one of the things I plan to address next month when I can start working on the code seriously. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 These are not the opinions of Microsoft. FAX: +44 171 734 6426