Re: NFS client broken in Linus' tip

Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-02T12:28:08Z

On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:03:28AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:59:30PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 15:38 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 06:32:08AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:27:52PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > > Yes and no. I still end up with an empty /etc/mtab, but the file now
> > > > > exists. However, I can create and echo data into /etc/mtab, but it seems
> > > > > that can't happen at boot time.
> > > >
> > > > Odd. Can you disable CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL for now to isolate the issue?
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, that results in some problem at boot time, which
> > > ultimately ends up with the other three CPUs being stopped, and
> > > hence the original reason scrolls off the screen before it can be
> > > read... even at 1920p.
> > >
> > Hi Russell,
> >
> > The following patch fixes the issue for me.
>
> It doesn't entirely fix the issue for me, instead we've got even weirder
> behaviour:
>
> root@cubox-i4:~# ls -al test
> ls: cannot access test: No such file or directory
> root@cubox-i4:~# touch test
> root@cubox-i4:~# ls -al test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 01:01 test
> root@cubox-i4:~# echo foo > test
> root@cubox-i4:~# ls -al test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Feb 1 01:01 test
> root@cubox-i4:~# cat test
> foo
> root@cubox-i4:~# rm test
> root@cubox-i4:~# echo foo > test
> -bash: test: Operation not supported
> root@cubox-i4:~# ls -al test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 01:01 test

FYI, I just tested Linus' tip, and NFS is still broken.

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