Re: [PATCH] nfsd/blocklayout: accept any minlength

Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-09T17:04:03Z

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 11:28:03AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> OK, planning to apply for 4.3 just on the assumption that you know what
> you're doing, but: I don't get it--it looks like the worst that can
> happen here is we just reuturn LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE to LAYOUTGET.
> Shouldn't the client then just fall back on normal NFS IO? Why the
> hang?

I've just retested with Trond's latest tree and can't reproduce the
hang anymore. It used to fence the client due to a lack of response,
but that might have been a different client bug that has now been fixed.