Re: VFS mediator?

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
18 Mar 2002 23:18:07 +0100


>>>>> " " == Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:

>> * NFS (v2,v3): Portable. And that's the only good thing to say
>> about it - it's stateless, it has messy semantics all over the
>> place and implementing userland server requires a lot of glue.

> 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...

Cheers,
Trond
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