From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: nfsd-fh: found a name that I didn't expect Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:41:13 +0400 Message-ID: <20030331144113.A1430@namesys.com> References: <20030331142406.Q25533@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Soeren Sonnenburg Cc: Bernd Schubert , reiserfs@nn7.de, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:37:12PM +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > I have another patch that we created before iget5_locked backport. > > It's a bit of hack to beat the race, but it works (fixes the race). > > It does not touch any code outside of reiserfs. > > So if you apply that to 2.4.20 and see if you still can see the NFS problem > > over time... > > Patch is below. > Err, sorry but I have to ask again: > This problem needs a patch on the server only - yes ? Yes. Well, may be this race is not the cause of the problem you are observing, but prerequisites are similar, so we'd better make sure this is different problem. > Then I will at least patch+compile the kernel. Thank you. Bye, Oleg