Re: pkg/13863 (writing to an shlight-mounted filesystem hangs and kills NFS)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/13863; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: asau%NetBSD.org@localhost, dive%endersgame.net@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/13863 (writing to an shlight-mounted filesystem hangs and
        kills NFS)
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:39:23 +0000

 On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:09:31PM +0000, asau%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > Synopsis: writing to an shlight-mounted filesystem hangs and kills NFS
  > 
  > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
  > State-Changed-By: asau%NetBSD.org@localhost
  > State-Changed-When: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:09:30 +0000
  > State-Changed-Why:
  > Reading this 8 years later I don't understand what the problem was.
 
 It sounds to me like a generic usermode-filesystem type of deadlock.
 
 How does the package work? It's far too old to be puffs; is it a
 user-level loopback NFS server?
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost