Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13T17:47:10Z

>>>>> " " == Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes:

> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:02:31PM +0200, Trond Myklebust
> wrote:
>> Then I'm confused as to what you are saying. Are we talking
>> about a full NFS server crash or just a temporary 'server not
>> responding' situation? Does NFS over TCP fix it, for instance?

> Just to keep you busy.. I had thought NFS over TCP fixed
> it. It rang for a lot longer (around 50 minutes), and then did
> the following.. Looks like a different bug to my untrained
> eye.

Nah. Looks like the same thing: mmapped writes followed by truncate.
TCP is likely to change the timings a bit (reliable transport means
that the race between out-of-order write and truncate is smaller, but
it is still there.

Cheers,
Trond