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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:42:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Rich Winkel <rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu>
To:        owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens)
Cc:        rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make installworld 3.2R -> 3.2S fails over NFS
Message-ID:  <199908101642.LAA19011@chumbly.math.missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <37AEDFCA.E6984EDE@enc.edu> from "Charles Owens" at Aug 9, 99 10:03:54 am

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According to Charles Owens:
> Rich Winkel wrote:
> > I just cvsupped fresh sources this weekend with the same result.
> > Does anyone else use nfs to "installworld"?
> > Or am I the only one having this problem?
>
> From 3.0R to at least 3.1-stable I've seen this problem.  The
> (annoying) workaround has been to do RW mounts of /usr/src and
> /usr/obj.  I've seen some discussion of this problem on the -hackers
> list of late, with some mention of fixes.  I updated my sources to the
> latest 3.2-stable on August 4th and happily found that running
> installworld over read-only NFS mounts worked again!

Actually this error arises with a r/w mount.  I get a different
error (while trying to make a symbolic link) when it's r/o.

In other words, it's completely broken :-<

Rich



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