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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Jesper Krogh <jesper-Q2TZfHgGEy4@public.gmane.org>
Cc: NFS list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel call trace on NFS-mount (using autofs).
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 15:37:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211312236.23156.21.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4833272B.9030602-Q2TZfHgGEy4@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 21:31 +0200, Jesper Krogh wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
>   > That appears to be crashing in generic VFS code rather than in anything
> > nfs specific, so I'd suggest reposting this Oops to linux-fsdevel. It
> > would be nice if you could first try to reproduce it with 2.6.25,
> > though.
> 
> Can I safely upgrade kernel to 2.6.25 without changing userspace utils
> and autofs?

Normally that should be fine as long as you don't enable any new
features that explicitly state in the kconfig file that they need
updated utilities.

> It is not particulary repoducible. I happens "every second day on a 
> random node of a set of around 48".

If it is difficult to reproduce, then you can always try posting the
existing Oops (mentioning the above), and seeing if that elicits any
response. It may be that this proves to be a known bug...

Cheers
  Trond


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20 18:55 Kernel call trace on NFS-mount (using autofs) Jesper Krogh
     [not found] ` <48331EAE.6060107-Q2TZfHgGEy4@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-20 19:26   ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-20 19:31     ` Jesper Krogh
     [not found]       ` <4833272B.9030602-Q2TZfHgGEy4@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-20 19:37         ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2008-05-20 20:28   ` Chuck Lever
2008-05-21  5:03     ` Jesper Krogh
     [not found]       ` <4833AD1B.6010408-Q2TZfHgGEy4@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-21 16:53         ` Chuck Lever

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