Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: VFS mediator? | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:15:49 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > Does not work... If you mount nfs server on localhost, you can > > deadlock. > > Huh? Examples please? A hell of a lot of work has gone into ensuring > that this cannot happen. I do most of my NFS client work on this sort > of setup, so it had bloody well better work...
At least theoretically it can. Imagine you have every other process stuck trying to page out (or blocked on a page out) over NFS, including your user mode nfs process. In practice it would be very hard to arrange but the theory is real.
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