Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 31 May 1998 21:08:40 +0100 (BST) | | From | Austin Donnelly <> | | Subject | Re: knfsd messages (was: Re: patch for 2.1.103 knfsd dentry problem |
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On Sat, 30 May 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
> > Well, since I can reproduce this bug on demand, I'd be interested in > > testing any patches you feel like coming up with. > > Hi Austin, > > I've reworked the dentry locking for the nfsd create routine, and > hopefully this will take care of the problems you reported. The code now > locks the parent directory before checking for existence, and keeps the > parent locked through the call to the low-level create op. > > The attached patch has been lightly tested and seems to behave > correctly, but let me know how it works out.
Ok, this is much better. I still get a single:
May 31 21:06:23 valour kernel: nfsd_create: dentry ThesisProposal/ThesisProposal not negative!
message - is this of concernt?
I've now got a really simply way of reproducing the problem:
mkdir .
This is what my tar happened to be doing
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