Re: nfs_statfs: statfs error = 116

[Marc Schmitt <mschmitt@inf.ethz.ch>]

Neil Brown wrote:

>On  September 18, mschmitt@inf.ethz.ch wrote:
>  
>
>>A user has found a bug that appears when checking out a big subversion
>>repository on the same server over NFS, it will always timeout upon this
>>huge amount of file manipulations and the checkout fails. He then
>>reproduced the issue with a small script that basicly loops over those
>>four commands:
>>
>>rename ("old/bla", "new/bla")
>>stat("new,bla",..)
>>chmod("new/bla")
>>rename ("new/bla", "old/bla")
>>
>>Before 1000 iterations the script returns: Error setting new/bla to
>>read-only! We'll try to narrow this down on the test cluster, too. One
>>particularity has been found already: the bug only appears if
>>the renaming takes place over directory boundries.
>>    
>>
>
>Sounds like you are using the "subtree_check" export flag on that
>export (possibly implicitly).  You don't want to.  i.e. add
>"no_subtree_check" after reading "man exports"
>  
>
Excellent, that worked. Thank you very much.

    Marc



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