2005-03-22 06:56:38

by NeilBrown

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Subject: Re: [PATCH kNFSd 0 of 16] Introduction

On Monday March 21, [email protected] wrote:
> NeilBrown <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Following are 16 patches against nfsd in 2.6.12-rc1-mm1
> >
> > Most are nfsv4 related.
> > Patch 2 removes an inexplicable increment of f_count for a file. This
> > fixes a problem wherein an exported filesystem may never be unmountable because a
> > file on it is never closed.
>
> OK, I'll send nlm-fix-f_count-leak.patch in for 2.6.12 and will buffer the
> rest.

Thanks.

>
> > This could possibly be a candidate for 2.6.12. The rest should wait to go
> > in to 2.6.13-rc
>
> Is it a 2.6.11.x candidate?

Not really. It is a long way for serious. Just annoyingly inconvenient
very occasionally (it needs to be fix in 2.4 too, which shows how long
it has been around).

NeilBrown


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