From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nix@esperi.org.uk
Subject: Re: persistent, quasi-random -ESTALE at mount time
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:40:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203044010.GC30641@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110203042814.6364.qmail@science.horizon.com>
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:28:14PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> > So the reboot was for an upgrade from 2.6.26-rcX to 2.6.38-rc3? I
> > wonder if a reboot (or just a server restart) without changing kernels
> > would see the same problem?
>
> Whoops, typo. It was from 2.6.36-rcX (I think -rc5, but it's scrolled
> off the logs), not .26.
>
> > We work quite hard to ensure that filehandles returned from older nfsd's
> > will still be accepted by newer ones. But that doesn't mean there
> > couldn't failed at that somehow in some case....
>
> I understand that sometimes there's an incompatible server change, but
Separate from the current problem, but: no, that shouldn't be true. If
you find a case where a kernel upgrade causes clients to fail, that's a
bug and we'd like to know about it.
> I don't ever remember a Linux-linux nfs mount surviving a server
> reboot.
Ouch. I do test that regularly, and haven't seen problems. Again, if
you have reproduceable problem, I'd appreciate details.--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 4:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-02 3:56 persistent, quasi-random -ESTALE at mount time George Spelvin
2011-02-03 3:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-02-03 4:28 ` George Spelvin
2011-02-03 4:37 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-02-03 4:40 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2011-02-03 8:30 ` Nix
2011-02-03 13:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-02-06 18:54 ` Nix
[not found] ` <87sjw156yx.fsf-AdTWujXS48Mg67Zj9sPl2A@public.gmane.org>
2011-02-06 19:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <AANLkTinUMeTowsWtxFm+Ga_ChVztWuUNe6na_Tq+F2==@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-06 19:31 ` J. Bruce Fields
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2010-09-21 20:28 Nix
2010-09-22 15:52 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-23 21:03 ` Nix
2010-10-01 22:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-10-01 22:41 ` Nix
2010-10-01 23:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-17 20:45 ` Nix
2010-12-24 18:27 ` J. Bruce Fields
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