>>>>> " " == Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp> writes:
> hp1:/m on /m type nfs
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,intr,addr=xxx.yyy.zz.ww,user=tomh)
> cp -a /usr/src/linux/ /m/tmp/moo
> Mar 31 18:00:23 holly kernel: nfs_writepage_sync: prior time??
> Mar 31 18:00:54 holly last message repeated 1711 times Mar 31
> 18:01:55 holly last message repeated 3159 times etc..
It's a dud (i.e. your server has not moved 1711 seconds into the
past).
The problem is that the comparison itself is flawed:
fattr.mtime.seconds is an unsigned 32-bit integer
inode->i_mtime is a signed long.
so the fattr.mtime.seconds is being promoted, and is gaining a
negative sign.
As I said: pre4 gets rid of this sort of madness.
Cheers,
Trond
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