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: Aleksej Saushev <asau%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/13863 (writing to an shlight-mounted filesystem hangs and
 kills NFS)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:40:00 +0000

 On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 06:33:30PM +0000, asau%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > Synopsis: writing to an shlight-mounted filesystem hangs and kills NFS
  > 
  > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
  > State-Changed-By: asau%NetBSD.org@localhost
  > State-Changed-When: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:33:29 +0000
  > State-Changed-Why:
  > It isn't clear what the problem was.
  > It isn't clear what package is affected, and there was no feedback
  > enough to derive necessary information.
  > If you still have the problem, reply to reopen or file another PR.
 
 The package is net/sharity-light, a loopback NFS server; the problem
 is that it deadlocks/ed the kernel; and I'm sure the problem is easy
 to reproduce, or it would be if (1) it hasn't gone away and (2) the
 package even compiled these days.
 
 There does not seem to be a fuse-smbfs or other more modern non-kernel
 smbfs in pkgsrc, though, so I'm not sure the package should be
 abandoned entirely.
 
 Plus, NetBSD shouldn't fall over just because someone tries to do a
 loopback NFS mount.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost