Re: 2.4.23-pre8-pac1 and -rc1-pac1 NFSv3 problem

[Greg Louis <glouis@dynamicro.on.ca>]

On 20031115 (Sat) at 0046:27 +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> On 11.11, Greg Louis wrote:
> > On 20031111 (Tue) at 1326:47 -0500, Greg Louis wrote:
> > > Kernels 2.4.23-pre7-pac1 and 2.4.23-rc1 are ok but -pre8-pac1 and
> > > -rc1-pac1 behave as follows: mounting a remote directory via NFS with
> > > v3 enabled (client and server) seems to work ok, and running mount with
> > > no parameters shows the NFS mount, but any attempt at access fails with
> > > a message like
> > >   /bin/ls: reading directory /whatever/it/was: Input/output error
> > 
> > Reverting all changes to fs/nfs/* since 2.4.23-pre7-pac1, and only
> > those, corrects the problem.

> /metoo
> 
> It works for some time, and then it breaks.
> Could you send me the patch you used to revert those changes ?
> I will try to make a diff from rc1 to pre7 and reverse.

Actually all I did was
rm fs/nfs/*.c
cp ../linux-2.4.23pre7/fs/nfs/*.c fs/nfs

Could well be overkill but it seems to work fine on a farm of mixed
2.4.22 and 2.4.23rc1-with-this-change machines.

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