On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:36:59PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:58:59 -0500 > "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:41:57AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > Correct. When knfsd starts back up, a new pipe will be created. At that > > > point, the daemon will try to open the new one and will then close the > > > old if the open succeeds. It will only loop here if that open fails for > > > some reason. > > > > I'm a little confused--how could this happen? > > > > Bugs? If that's really the only case then "crash and log an error" might really be more robust in the long term than spinning. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html