Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 1997 07:50:42 -0500 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: NCPfs still buggy (and crashes netware server) |
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Tore Olsen wrote: > I upgraded our webserver to 2.0.31 yesterday, in the hope that the > bugs in ncpfs we were experiencing would go away, but that didn't > happen. (We're running the web-pages from a netware server, don't ask > why.) > > I get lots of messages like these: > ncp_put_inode: inode in use device 00:0a, inode 34215841, count=2 > ncp_put_inode: inode in use device 00:0a, inode 609381, count=2 > > The inodes usually belong to .htaccess files, whatever that means. > > I wrote a small program that would fork(), and repeatedly open() and > close() the same file, and that seems to trigger the bug. > > Another thing is that after a few days with this behaviour, unmounting > the ncp filesystem actually crashes the Netware server. So there must > be a bug in Novell's software too. :-)
Hi Tore,
The "inode in use" message isn't a bug -- it shows that the software has detected what was formerly a bug, and is now handling the case correctly. I made these changes back in June, working with Troels Arvin. At that time he too had a problem with the Novell server crashing, which I think went away with a server upgrade. You can comment out the message if you like.
> Seeing Linus' note about preparing for 2.2, and ncpfs not being ready > for that, I really hope that Someone (tm) will understand what's > wrong, and fix it for 2.0.32 as well.
The ncpfs for 2.1.xx is an entirely different matter; it needs some work to adapt to the many 2.1.xx-specific changes. But if you find specific bugs in 2.0.xx ncpfs, please report them so we can look into it.
Regards, Bill
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