From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754121AbYIEUFI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:05:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751465AbYIEUE4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:04:56 -0400 Received: from quackingmoose.com ([63.73.180.143]:40142 "EHLO penguin.merfinllc.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751270AbYIEUE4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:04:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:04:55 -0700 From: Aaron Straus To: Chuck Lever Cc: Neil Brown , Linux NFS Mailing List , Trond Myklebust , LKML Kernel Subject: Re: [NFS] blocks of zeros (NULLs) in NFS files in kernels >= 2.6.20 Message-ID: <20080905200455.GH22796@merfinllc.com> References: <20080905191939.GG22796@merfinllc.com> <0A24B45A-9761-4310-B1DB-B4738964E862@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0A24B45A-9761-4310-B1DB-B4738964E862@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Sep 05 03:56 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: > [ replacing cc: nfs@sf.net with linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, and neil's > old address with his current one ] Sorry I probably grabbed an old MAINTAINERS file. > On Sep 5, 2008, at Sep 5, 2008, 3:19 PM, Aaron Straus wrote: > > Writer_Version Outcome: > > <= 2.6.19 OK > > >= 2.6.20 BAD > > Up to which kernel? Recent ones may address this issue already. BAD up to 2.6.27-rc? I have to see exactly which is the last rc version I tested. > > I can try to bisect between 2.6.19 <-> 2.6.20. > > That's a good start. OK will try to bisect. > Comparing a wire trace with strace output, starting with the writing > client, might also be illuminating. We prefer wireshark as it uses > good default trace settings, parses the wire bytes and displays them > coherently, and allows you to sort the frames in various useful ways. OK. Could you also try to reproduce on your side using those python programs? I want to make sure it's not something specific with our mounts, etc. Thanks! =a= -- =================== Aaron Straus aaron@merfinllc.com