Re: nfs broken in net-next? -- now in mainline

[Ingo Molnar]

* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 10/29/2009 01:43 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>> pk12-3214-189-102:~ # mount -t nfs 10.6.75.100:/data/shared/pxeboot /x
> >>> mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
> >>> mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.
> >>
> >> rpc.statd on client should have be started by mount.nfs when a nfs
> >> filesystem is mounted. Is this not happening for some reason or do you
> >> see any errors in syslog?
> >>
> >>>
> >>> using opensuse11.1
> >>>
> >>
> >> Are you using 11.1 betas? I know of a problem where non-root user mounts
> >> fail to start rpc.statd in betas that got fixed later:
> >>
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=122748525624094&w=2
> >>
> >> Is the problem seen only recently (after updating to net-next)?
> >>
> >
> > only happen with net-next.
> >
> > linus tree and tip tree are ok.
> >
> 
> Finally it reached linus tree and tip.

In the quoted text above it's being disputed that it's a kernel 
regression so i guess your best option is to bisect it (if you can).

	Ingo
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