* Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> yeah - bad luck on that kernel -- I was a crappy maintainer and wasn't
> doing proper regressions and some runtime bugs slipped in without me
> seeing it.  You should be able to backport the fs/9p code from the
> latest and greatest official kernel (not the v9fs devel directory)
> without much trouble and things will be much more stable for you.

Ok, I'll have a look.

> The recursive mount problem is something that you have to watch
> yourself on -- single threaded file servers (like spfs and u9fs) 
> will just end up blocking indefinitely.

The kernel should not hangup if the server is in trouble.
Perhaps some reasonable timeout would be fine - if we dont
get an response, abort w/ IO error.

cu
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