Re: knfsd 1.3 is released.

G. Allen Morris III (gam3@ann.ixlabs.com)
Mon, 10 May 1999 11:47:36 -0700

>>>Tony.Lill@ajlc.waterloo.on.ca said:
> "G. Allen Morris III" <gam3@ann.ixlabs.com> writes:
> > I don't think this patch is quite ready for prime-time.
>
> IMHO, the massive file corruption that results on a vanilla Linux
> system is what's not ready for prime time. I've been running the
> 1.2.2a patch on Linux 2.2.5 for a couple of weeks now, serving 60 HPUX
> and Solaris boxes without any noticeable problem, whereas before the
> server was unusable.

Do you know what was causing the corruption?

> Since this problem has been around for years without a fix getting
> into the mainline kernel, unless there's some known problem with the
> patches, I don't see a downside.

There are only a few. I hope to have the major parts of this patch in
the main kernel very soon.

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G. Allen Morris III

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