From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 4 20:40:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA20301 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 20:40:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA20280 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 20:40:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA20745; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 21:21:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704050421.VAA20745@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: kern/3184: vnodes are used after they are freed. (dup alloc?) To: Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no (Tor Egge) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 21:21:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, dg@root.com, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704042222.AAA14484@pat.idt.unit.no> from "Tor Egge" at Apr 5, 97 00:22:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Proper locking on NFS will help against the crash I experienced, but > if the NFS server goes down at the wrong moment, a call to getnewvnode > may hang until the NFS server is back again. This will always be the case, right? Or do you mean the case where an attempt to vclean() a vnode is against an NFS vnode with the server down? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.