Subject: Re: nullfs and panic: locking against myself
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 01/04/1998 12:37:55
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 12:54:47PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> i wasn't aware that the locking in any of the weird fs's had really
> been fixed.  i avoid using things like nullfs, union, etc., for
> exactly this reason.

It's funny that these fs's are kept in the tree even though they do not
work.  Or, it's funny they they haven't been fixed - the problems have
been known for a looong time now...

Personally, I like to use unionfs for NetBSD source tree.. but I'm afraid
I'll run into problems with it too.

  -jm