Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Anders Saaby wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 08:03, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>
> > Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> >
> > > Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > >
> > > I also can't reproduce the problem on an older
> > > client running 2.4.21.
> >
> > Well, actually I tried harder with the 2.4.21
> > client and I obtained a similar effect:
> >
> > So, instead of ENOENT I get ESTALE on 2.4.21.
> >
> > May well be a server bug then.  The server is running
> > 2.6.10-1.766_FC3.  Do you think I should try installing
> > a vanilla kernel on the server?
>
>
> We have seen lots of ESTALE's/ENOENT's when the server is running 2.6.10 
> (vanilla). Don't know if this was supposed to be fixed in the 2.6.10-FC 
> kernels, but vanilla 2.6.11 doesen't seem to have this bug at all.
>
> You mention a lot of kernel versions including 2.6.11, and I can't really 
> figure out whether you are talking abount the clients or the server. - 
> Anyways if your server has only run with 2.6.10 - try 2.6.11.

Thank you, I've finally nailed it down by upgrading the
*server* kernel from 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3.

The latter is basically 2.6.10-ac12 plus a bunch of vendor
specific patches.


> - Apologies if I missed something obvious.

No, *I* did.  All the clues I had leaded me to the client
side, while the problem was in the server instead.

--
 // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
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