Re: [NFS] 2.6.17.6 New(?) NFS Kernel Bug (OOPS) When vi/over/nfs/file.txt

From: Neil Brown
Date: Mon Sep 04 2006 - 08:01:48 EST


On Thursday August 31, jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Short description: I have a text file I was editing over NFS, around 4 to
> 5 kilobytes. It was during this time this occured:
>
> Note, this is the first time I have ever seen this bug.
> My .config is attached. After a reboot, I ran the same vi command, no
> issues, so I could easily reproduce the problem.
>
> Could anyone offer any insight to exactly what it was that caused this
> bug?

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2f34931fdc78b4895553aaa33748939cc7697c99

This is fixed in a 2.6.17.11 and possibly earlier stable releases.

NeilBrown

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