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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:45:25 -0400
To: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com>,
       Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
       jgmtfia Mr <jgmtfia@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: NFS data corruption
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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:58:59PM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:27:27PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 21:25 -0600, jgmtfia Mr wrote:
> > > When transferring from a 2.6.16 nfs client to a 2.6.16.1 server I get
> > > data corruption.  There is no indication of any problems in any log on
> > > the client or server.  It does *not* happen when transferring from
> > > server to client.
> > 
> > Do you get corruption with 2.6.17-rc1? That has a fix for a known
> > corruption issue.
>  
> Trond,
> 
> Could you point out the particular commit, or the patch from your patch
> series?
> 
> [On Tuesday, I tried linux-2.6.16-NFS_ALL on a host that is re-exporting
> a NetApp NFS mount via Samba, and I got thousands of file locks that
> weren't released, so I had to discard NFS_ALL for now, until I have time
> to look closer.]

There was a problem with locks not being unlocked which has been fixed
in the latest 2.6.17-rc1 NFS_ALL.

--b.