Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:48:06 +0100 | Subject | Re: VFS mediator? | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:
> Okay, take userland nfs-server. (This thread was about userland > filesystems).
Yech... Nobody should be seriously considering using unfsd: it does not even manage to follow the NFS protocol. That inability was one of the many reasons why Olaf Kirch abandoned further develpement of unfsd and started work on knfsd.
> Then, make memory full of dirty pages. Imagine that nfs-server > is swapped-out by some bad luck. What you have is extremely > nasty deadlock, AFAICS. [To free memory you have to write out > dirty data, but you can't do that because you don't have enough > memory for nfs-server].
So that is another argument for using knfsd rather than unfsd. I will agree with you that NFS is not perfect, but please judge it on its actual merits and not on some trumped up charge...
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