Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. J. Lu" <> | Subject | Re: NFS file locking broken (take 2) | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 02:34:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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> > > > 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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