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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:03:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS hang on rmdir(2) with 5.0-current client, server
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021003020248.53997J-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210030554.g935sovU017799@gw.catspoiler.org>

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On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Don Lewis wrote:

> On  2 Oct, Robert Watson wrote:
> > 
> > Running into an odd (and apparently recent) problem involving rmdir(2) and
> > NFS.  I have a diskless box started using pxeboot: NFS /, MFS /var, MFS
> > /tmp, recent 5.0-CURRENT.  Attempt to rmdir /usr/local (on NFS) results in
> > NFS hanging.  It appears to send out the RPC, but no response comes back
> > from the (also recent) FreeBSD 5.0 NFS server.  Here's the quicky on the
> > client:
> 
> > It looks like the client is basically hung waiting for an RPC response.
> > I'd be glad to provide more debugging information if someone can point me
> > in the right direction.
> 
> I haven't seen this seen this problem with a 5.0-CURRENT client and a
> 4.7-PRERELEASE server, so as near as I can tell the client side isn't
> totally hosed. 

Interesting observation: rm on files, and rmdir on empty directories
doesn't trigger it, but attempt to rmdir on a non-empty directory does. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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