Re: 2.1.79 still has NFS client problems

Michael Lausch (mla@gams.co.at)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:16:26 +0100


>>>>> "bh" == Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:27:50 -0500

bh> Michael Lausch wrote:
>>
>> if a file on an NFS mounted directoru is opened by an application and
>> the application wants to rename this file, EBUSY is returned. This
>> happens with the user space NFS daemon on the server.
>>
>> Will this problem be fixed? At least exmh and ddd suffer from this.

bh> This problem is under consideration. Right now NFS client is playing it
bh> safe by not renaming sources or targets that are busy (dentry count >
bh> 1).

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Will this go in 2.2?

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