Andrew Deason <[email protected]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you abandon and retry operations on a locked vnode and hence tie up >> more and more server threads waiting on the same vnode, you will >> eventually cause a file server meltdown, which most definitely *does* >> screw up other clients. > That's what it is like _now_, yes. But speaking in a more general > manner, the fileserver really should have mechanisms to deal with this. Oh, I agree. Certainly another way of addressing the same general set of issues is to find some way to make the file server cope with pathological client behavior. But I also think that's much harder to do, and I say that on the basis that various attempts at that have been made over the last five years and none of them have really worked. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
