Re: nfs stale filehandle issues with 2.6.10-rc1 in-kernel server

[Trond Myklebust]

ty den 02.11.2004 Klokka 17:19 (-0700) skreiv Jeff V. Merkey:

> >Connect 2.4.18 and 2.6.9 with NFS 3 enabled.  I am seeing problems 
> >connecting and file size mismatches.  I also see errors with zero
> >length files (host side) that get opened and populated with data
> >and the remote side is unable to read them -- keeps seeing 
> >them as zero length.  

That's entirely expected. NFS has always been forced to use a polling
model for attribute cache consistency. "man 5 nfs" and read all about
the "actimeo" mount options that control this behaviour.

Cheers,
  Trond

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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>

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