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

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Trond Myklebust wrote:

> 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
>
>  
Trond,

Thanks for the update.  I noticed from another post on this thread that 
the problems with
/etc/exports are being addressed.  This was the other problem I was 
seeing but it appears
to be getting fixed.

Jeff


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