Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

Dave Jones
2003-05-13T15:34:51Z

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:32:29PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> That is a server bug. There are no rules for congestion control
> etc. in the NFS or SunRPC protocols, so the server is supposed to be
> able to cope with whatever the client manages to throw at it.
>
> I presume, though, that you are not seeing the 2.4.x NFS server die in
> this way when you blast it with a 2.5 client?

I had thought that the 2.4 server survived this. I just did a test
with a 2.4.21pre7 kernel and found the same behaviour, so this isn't
a regression, just something thats not very nice.

Dave