Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:00:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mark@vmunix.com (Mark Mayo) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, tlambert@primenet.com, dg@root.com, green@zone.syracuse.NET, grog@lemis.com, julian@whistle.com, bag@sinbin.demos.su, rock@cs.uni-sb.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current NFS problem Message-ID: <199810200000.RAA19037@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19981019193416.A28045@vmunix.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Oct 19, 98 07:34:16 pm
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> > > Has anyone asked Rick Macklem about this? > > > > Rick bowed out of the NFS game a long time ago. Kirk would be a better > > bet. [ ... ] > In general, he's not interested in helping FreeBSD in any way, since > he thinks the code has become too "polluted" and "complicated" now. > (which I would disagree with.. initial inspection by myself a while > ago suggested that not much at all has really changed..) I'd agree with him, starting with the "cookie" for VOP_READDIR. > As for any other help, as I said, give me a list of specific questions > and I'll do my best to get answers. I think if we get one shot at this, the list of questions should be agreed upon. My main question would be: o Do you see any reason why nfsnode locking should be necessary? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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