On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:00:42PM +0800, LEE, Yui-wah (Clement) wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Jan Harkes wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 05:13:06PM -0500, Vic Kass wrote:
> > > I have just installed coda on two Redhat 6.1 systems. Both
> > > are running the 2.2.14 kernel.  When both systems boot up,
> > > the following message is displayed:
> > > 
> > >     kernel: coda_psdev_write: downcall, no SB!
> > 
> > That's not a problem, the client is just very eager to make sure the
> > kernel doesn't have bad state cached and starts chattering before the
> > mount has completed.
> 
> The "no SB!" message has confused many people that I suggest may be we
> should do something to eliminate it (or rephase the message to make it
> less alarming).  Maybe we should put this to the todo list?

I _think_ I've made the message quieter in the latest patch I send to Al
Viro for the 2.3/4 linux kernels. But maybe we can also fix venus not to
send those downcalls in the first place (or limit it to only one). One
CODA_FLUSH should do the trick, instead of zillions CODA_PURGEFID's.

Jan