Re: Move (mv) hangs with NFSv4

[Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:48:54PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
>  
>
>>>J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Thanks.  It's a problem with the idmapping on the server, argh.  Is
>>>>rpc.idmapd still running after this, or does it die?--b.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>It's still running. The effect is only local to the mv process. Other 
>>>traffic to the same mount continue to work perfectly.  There has been a 
>>>few incidents where the entire mount hangs. But in these cases I have to 
>>>restart the client, not the server.
>>>
>>>Can I get some debug output from idmapd that will pinpoint where the 
>>>problem is?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Any updates to this issue?
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry for the overly long delay on the response.  Cleaning out my inbox
>prompted me to look back at this issue.  I did find one bug in the ACL
>code which could cause a "mv" with the target on an NFSv4 partition to
>fail.  Other than that I can't reproduce any problems with move.
>
>It's possible we've fixed something since the beginning of the year, or
>it's possible something else is going on.  If you get the chance to
>retest with our latest patches, let me know.
>
>--b.
>  
>

Ehm... where would these patches be located? I didn't see anything
obvious on the web page for any recent kernel. Or perhaps you meant the
lats nfs-utils? or both? =)

Rgds
Pierre


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