Re: Am I still the one to fix the NFS_FILE_SYNC problem

[Tao Guo <glorioustao@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> On 05/24/2010 04:14 PM, William A. (Andy) Adamson wrote:
>> Hi Boaz
>>
>> The last patch I sent in [PATCH 1/1] SQUASHME pnfs-submit: replace
>> layoutcommit_ctx with rpc_cred fixes the NFS_FILE_SYNC problem for
>> files. It replaces taking a reference on the open context with taking
>> a reference on the rpc_cred.
>>
>
> Hi Andy.
>
> I hope you are online could you chat with me a bit about this,
> on boazharrosh-Re5JQEeQqe9fmgfxC/sS/w@public.gmane.org
>
> I have seen your patch and i like it a lot. I have not yet test with
> it, so I own you.
>
> I'm talking about the other problem I had where the write-out returns
> NFS_FILE_SYNC and commit is not called and pnfs_client_ops->nfs_commit_complete()
> is not eventually called, then inode never gets written/updated and we get all
> these straining .nfs000000000000XXX files and IO never finishes. You said
> you had them too and I had a work around for objects. (This problem is new
> in 2.6.34)
>
> Do you have this problem or it's only me?
>
I have already send a patch to fix it:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=127433056302242&w=2
> Boaz
>
>> -->Andy
>>

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tao.