Major NFS Bugs Found & Being Fixed

mbadolato writes "From an article at kerneltrap.org: On the FreeBSD hacker mailing list, Jordan Hubbard commented on some serious issues with NFS, posting a tool called 'fsx' - originally developed for the NeXT OS - that was ideal for finding them. Matt Dillon was quite impressed by the tool and immediately started playing with it. In very little time, he presented a number of major fixes..."

There's a good collection of the emails here describing some of the fixes that Matt Dillon has made."

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Re:Major NFS bugs found, but hidden from main page

[Coz]

Would you rather be oblivious? As it stands, *BSD fans see this note, and a lot of work is going into developing a fix, not only for BSD, but for Linux as well - if you want to follow the status, follow the links/mirrors/forums. The tool these guys are using (publicly available) has discovered major flaws in the internal VM implementation - what are the odds you'd EVER hear of that with M$? (BTW, has anyone run this against M$'s NFS implementations?)

Besides, part of the fun of open-source is watching the evolution. The emails documenting how this evolved are fun to read - wonder what M$'s equivalents say? We'll never know....