[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Status?

[Steve Lidie]

On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:18 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Steve Lidie wrote:
>
>> Works as in previous Panther revs, i.e. still kernel panics too often
>> for production use.
>
> The problems seem to be as follows (and maybe more, but these are the 
> ones
> I know of)
> -vnreclaim can race with TryReclaim. Chaskiel worked up something and I
> made some more changes as dictated by testing, only the parts which are
> "done" went into CVS earlier today. I'm still testing to make sure the
> rest has no side effects, and I need to let the test run for a while
> (which it hasn't due to the fact that I'm still working on the item 2
> below this one)

vnreclaim seems to be my most common panic.

>
> -rename can panic in vget due to no ubc. the lookup vnop has
> to be prepared to instantiate a new ubc. I also put that into CVS 
> today.

Okay, not sure exactly what that means ;)

>
> -leaked references in our lookup vnode op (can cause the vlru cycle 
> panic
> which linux had for some time..) which I'm hoping to have the answer to
> shortly.

thanks

>
> If there are more, well, when this is done people can test it, and 
> submit
> bugs to openafs-bugs@openafs.org. But, please hold off until I'm done.

I have a 10.3.4 Panther image using AFS for home directories and KRB 
authentication.  I will gladly test any snapshot(s) you have - I will 
have a good feel within a day ether you are making progress ;)


>
>> Not that I'm aware of. I am under the impression that "they" are
>> working on the kernel panics ...
>
> I have a Mac running 10.3 on my lap. If CMU weren't opening a campus on
> the far side of the world, this would have been done much sooner.


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