Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

[Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>]

Anders Saaby wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 08:03, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> 
>>Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>>
>>>Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>>
>>>I also can't reproduce the problem on an older
>>>client running 2.4.21.
>>
>>Well, actually I tried harder with the 2.4.21
>>client and I obtained a similar effect:
>>
>>So, instead of ENOENT I get ESTALE on 2.4.21.
>>
>>May well be a server bug then.  The server is running
>>2.6.10-1.766_FC3.  Do you think I should try installing
>>a vanilla kernel on the server?
> 
> 
> We have seen lots of ESTALE's/ENOENT's when the server is running 2.6.10 
> (vanilla). Don't know if this was supposed to be fixed in the 2.6.10-FC 
> kernels, but vanilla 2.6.11 doesen't seem to have this bug at all.
> 
> You mention a lot of kernel versions including 2.6.11, and I can't really 
> figure out whether you are talking abount the clients or the server. - 
> Anyways if your server has only run with 2.6.10 - try 2.6.11.

Thank you, I've finally nailed it down by upgrading the
*server* kernel from 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3.

The latter is basically 2.6.10-ac12 plus a bunch of vendor
specific patches.


> - Apologies if I missed something obvious.

No, *I* did.  All the clues I had leaded me to the client
side, while the problem was in the server instead.

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