Re: NFS file locking broken (take 2)

H. J. Lu (hjl@freya.yggdrasil.com)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 02:34:02 -0700 (PDT)

>
> > > to server. This is incredibly rare, and I've found no good way to
> > > reproduce it. Since it is never accompanied by error messages, I usually
> > > find out later when, e.g. attempts at unpacking a downloaded tarball fail
> > > with "tar archive truncated.." messages.
>
> You can reproduce it to order by filling the disk for one, and because
> of an O_APPEND problem in another. The former is simply not handled right
> the latter is a bug, but I dont fully understand it

Well, it will be hard for me to reproduce.

>
> > > - When building the kernel on an NFS mounted directory, a 'make mrproper'
> > > will sometimes fail with numerous complaints about "files in use" when
> > > trying to remove the linux/include/config hierarchy. Usually, the second
> > > attempt succeeds.
> >
> > How easy to reproduce it?
>
> That sounds like the rename problem in the NFS client (try running sendmail
> on a diskless 2.1.x box) - it'll fail with rename problems.
>

I don't have a diskless machine and I don't have the time to play with
it either.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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