From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:12:16 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] What do I need for a small 9P2000 server @ Linux ? Message-ID: <20070629141216.GA27541@nibiru.local> References: <20070628133155.GB11624@nibiru.local> <13426df10706280820l13119c42r6b107e0eed489339@mail.gmail.com> <20070628173628.GA8212@nibiru.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b890178-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > yeah - bad luck on that kernel -- I was a crappy maintainer and wasn't > doing proper regressions and some runtime bugs slipped in without me > seeing it. You should be able to backport the fs/9p code from the > latest and greatest official kernel (not the v9fs devel directory) > without much trouble and things will be much more stable for you. Ok, I'll have a look. > The recursive mount problem is something that you have to watch > yourself on -- single threaded file servers (like spfs and u9fs) > will just end up blocking indefinitely. The kernel should not hangup if the server is in trouble. Perhaps some reasonable timeout would be fine - if we dont get an response, abort w/ IO error. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------