From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: NFS and /dev/mdXpY Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:47:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1271965650.593.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20100417195747.5fae8834.stealth@sourcemage.org> <20100422182543.GB8858@fieldses.org> <20100422225310.38e37038.stealth@sourcemage.org> <20100422193236.GA10302@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100422193236.GA10302-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Vlad Glagolev , linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-raid-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:32 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:53:10PM +0400, Vlad Glagolev wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:25:43 -0400 > > "J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 07:57:47PM +0400, Vlad Glagolev wrote: > > > > Well, hello there, > > > > > > > > Posted it on linux-kernel ML also, and post it here, for more specific analysis. > > > > > > > > I faced this problem today while trying to mount some NFS share on OpenBSD box. > > > > I mounted it successfully without any visible errors, but I wasn't able to cd there, the printed error was: > > > > > > > > ksh: cd: /storage - Stale NFS file handle > > > > > > > > Apropos, the partition is 5.5 TB. I tried another one on my box and it was mounted successfully. It was possible to manage files there too. Its size is ~3GB. > > > > That's why the first time I thought about some size limitations of OpenBSD/Linux/NFS. > > > > > > > > While talking on #openbsd @ freenode, I discovered this via tcpdump on both sides: > > > > > > > > http://pastebin.ca/1864713 > > > > > > > > Googling for 3 hours didn't help at all, some posts had similiar issue but either with no answer at all or without any full description. > > > > > > > > Then I started to experiment with another Linux box to kill the possible different variants. > > > > > > > > On another box I also have nfs-utils 1.1.6 and kernel 2.6.32. Mounting that big partition was unsuccessful, it got just stuck. On tcpdump I've seen this: > > > > > > I'm a bit confused. What kernel and nfs-utils version is running on the > > > problematic Linux server? > > > > same. nfs-utils 1.1.6 and kernel 2.6.32. > > Huh. That should be new enough for it to be using uuid's. I wonder why > it isn't? What are the contents of /dev/disk/by-uuid? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html