From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 14 20:03:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20081 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:03:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20044 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07046; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810150258.TAA07046@implode.root.com> To: Brian Feldman cc: Greg Lehey , Julian Elischer , Mike Smith , "Alex G. Bulushev" , Daniel Rock , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current NFS problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:16:21 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:58:41 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Well, according to Jordan's "non-verification" to my alluding that since >Dr. McKusick was committing NFS deltas, he was the mysterious contracted >NFS fixer-upper. Last time I checked, he didn't really do his entire job >if that was to totally fix NFS.... but hey, I don't use NFS much if ever, >so I won't Complain... Kirk was contracted to fix the problems that he could fix in a short amount of time. He did that and confirmed my own analysis of the remaining problems, which basically all stem from lack of FS node locking in the NFS code. Adding such locking opens a very large can of worms and everyone who has tried to do this has failed. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message