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Subject: Re: [9fans] aux/nfsserver and linux
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:37:24 -0400
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> Has anyone gotten aux/nfsserver to work
> reasonably well with Linux?  I've been trying
> but failing miserably.  Mounting works fine,
> but then after a half hour or so, no more file
> system operations work -- they all hang.  So
> typing `enter' at a shell prompt gets me more
> shell prompts, but typing ls (in a non-NFS directory!)
> hangs.  Typing ctl-alt-del doesn't help, presumably
> because that tries to exec reboot, but the file
> system is deadlocked.
>
> This is using whatever the default setup is under
> Mandrake Linux.  I've tried both -o hard,intr and
> -o soft,intr, and they both exhibit the same problems.
> Any tips would be appreciated.

Never mind.  This has nothing to do with NFS,
though I did fix some wstat bugs in aux/nfsserver
that you should pick up if you're using it.

Russ