From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755973AbYKITKT (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:10:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755641AbYKITKH (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:10:07 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:59972 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755619AbYKITKG (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:10:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:09:51 -0500 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Doug Nazar , "'David Woodhouse'" , "'Al Viro'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc3 truncates nfsd results Message-ID: <20081109190951.GD25568@fieldses.org> References: <000301c93eaa$fae98460$f0bc8d20$@ca> <491097DA.9040204@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <491097DA.9040204@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:43:38PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Doug Nazar wrote: >> Commit 8d7c4203 "nfsd: fix failure to set eof in readdir in some situations" >> breaks the nfsd server. Bisected it back to this commit and reverting it >> fixes the problem. >> >> However, it only happens on certain machines even with the same kernel & >> filesystem (ext3). I've two groups of similar computers, each group running >> identical kernels. The ones listing only ~250 files are of course in error. >> Eldritch is running 2.6.28-rc3 with that commit reverted. With 2.8.28-rc3 it >> showed the incorrect number. > > I'm seeing "weirdness" on my NFS4-mounted home directory (client and > server are both x86-64 2.6.28-rc) -- gconfd locking up, and other > desktop gadgets breaking. 2.6.27 works great. > > I'll try reverting this and see if the behavior improves, thanks for the > pointer... Any more details on that "weirdness"? --b.