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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Yusuf Goolamabbas
	<yusufg-lA0CmJ9G6+FWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] OpenSRS blog post alludes to a Linux NFS bug in 2.6.19
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:45:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224434701.9433.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081019064405.0db1e004-RtJpwOs3+0O+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 06:44 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:28:11 +0800
> Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg-lA0CmJ9G6+FWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > Anybody know if this is bug is fixed and if so in which kernel revision.
> > Any ideas about its impact on vendor kernels (RHEL/SUSE Enterprise)
> > 
> > http://opensrs.com/blog/2008/10/technical-debrief-on-october-cluster-a-email-service-issue/
> > 
> 
> I know that more recent RHEL kernels have this fixed. The bug to track it was here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=369561
> 
> It's also easy to tell if you have a kernel with this problem. Just do
> a single TCP mount on the client, and then run:
> 
> $ rpcinfo -p
> 
> ...you should see port registrations for nlockmgr. If you don't see any
> UDP ones, then the kernel has the problem.
> 

Note that the workaround was simply to add 

     lockd.nlm_udpport=<unused portnumber>

to your kernel bootparameters.

Cheers
  Trond


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-19 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-19  3:28 [NFS] OpenSRS blog post alludes to a Linux NFS bug in 2.6.19 Yusuf Goolamabbas
     [not found] ` <20081019032811.GA30801-lA0CmJ9G6+FWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-19 10:44   ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <20081019064405.0db1e004-RtJpwOs3+0O+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-19 16:45       ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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