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List:       linux-nfs
Subject:    [NFS] Re: [PATCH kNFSd 0 of 16] Introduction
From:       Neil Brown <neilb () cse ! unsw ! edu ! au>
Date:       2005-03-22 6:56:31
Message-ID: 16959.49567.10267.644275 () cse ! unsw ! edu ! au
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On Monday March 21, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> 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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