From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:16:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:16:43 -0400 Received: from mout0.freenet.de ([194.97.50.131]:20156 "EHLO mout0.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:16:38 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Andreas Hartmann Organization: Privat To: Chris Mason Subject: Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiser or NFS Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:13:44 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <273360000.991500124@tiny> In-Reply-To: <273360000.991500124@tiny> Cc: "Kernel-Mailingliste" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060220134401.04097@athlon> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by susi.maya.org id f52IGe701285 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 18:42 schrieben Sie: > On Saturday, June 02, 2001 02:41:04 PM +0200 Andreas Hartmann > > wrote: > > Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 12:52 schrieb Rasmus Bøg Hansen: > >> On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Andreas Hartmann wrote: > >> > I got massive file corruptions with the kernels mentioned in the > >> > subject. I can reproduce it every time. > >> > > >> >> You cannot use NFS on reiserfs unless you apply the knfsd patch. Look > >> >> at > >> > >> www.namesys.com. > >> > > > Thank you very much for your advice. > > > I tested your suggestion and run the machine without NFS-mounted > > > devices > > > > - it seems to be working fine. > > Anyway - I'm wondering why I didn't > > get any problem until 2.4.4ac10 with this configuration without the > > appropriate patch on the client or on the server? > > The problem only happens when the clients do an operation on a file that > has gone out of cache on the server. Under light load, this might happen > very rarely. The load didn't change. YOu can forget the load, it's very small. It's my private server and I'm doing always the same thing via NFS - compiling e.g. This has been working fine until 2.4.4.ac10, afterwards it has been broken. > > You only need the patch on the server. My experiences today are others: I need the patch on both, the server and the client (both 2.4.5) to get it working. See the other mailing to Alan in the list. Regards, Andreas Hartmann