Re: nfs through nullfs

From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie_at_le-hen.org> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:47:58 +0200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:42 UTC

Hi Suleiman,

> > Can you try the patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/ 
> > null_vnops.c-20050831.diff ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I'll give a try to this patch later today if I can find some time.
> I will test it tomorrow otherwise.

The patch removes the panic for a NFS filesystem which you null mount
somewhere else.
%%%
    # mount -t nfs obiwan:/home/ncvs /nfs/obiwan/cvs
    # mount_nullfs /nfs/obiwan/cvs /cvs
    # cd /sys
    # cat CVS/Root
    /cvs
    # cvs diff -up
    [...]
%%%

No panic any more.  Thank you ! :-)

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
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