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Subject: Re: VFS mediator?
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 18 Mar 2002 23:18:07 +0100
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>>>>> " " == 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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