On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Mike Marion wrote:

> On 10 Aug, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> > OK. I thought you were talking about kernel patches. Sorry.
> 
> No, sorry.. daemon patches.
> 
> BTW, so far I've only seen one bug in the updated daemon with those patches,
> with ghosting and direct maps.  If a mount gets hung, then HUPing the daemons,
> even ones not related to the hung path (/net path hung and direct maps on
> paths /prj and /iceng) doesn't seem to work.
> 
> e.g. had a host where some new paths under /prj added to map weren't taking 
> effect.  Numerous hups to daemons didn't help.  Finally noticed an error 
> about 
> stating a filesystem in /net.  Was able to force umount that path, and next 
> HUPs made new paths now accessible.   
> 
> Can recreate and strace daemon(s) sometime this week for more data.

That would be useful, thanks.

I fear that the resolution may not be simple as the daemon works as a 
finite state machine. If something blocks state transitions then 
everything stops.

Bummer.

Ian

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