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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:09:54 -0500
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From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: NFS Patch #4 -- survived overnight test. (was Re: Found NFS
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At 10:35 AM -0800 12/13/01, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Are there still bugs in NFS?  You bet!   I'm sure there are bugs
>     related to multiple clients and/or the server modifying files out
>     from under a client, and I think the potential issue with nfsiod
>     ordering that was posted to the list is a definite possibility.

Perhaps the next round of torture-testing (after these are committed!)
would be to have multiple clients running the program against a common
NFS file server.

>     But this should go a long way to improving the rock solid
>     reputation of our stack!

This is very excellent!

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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