From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:00:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:00:10 -0400 Received: from roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com ([24.169.102.121]:1540 "EHLO roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:00:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:59:18 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: Christian Robottom Reis , NFS@lists.sourceforge.net cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] NFS insanity Message-ID: <424880000.993131958@tiny> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, June 20, 2001 08:23:06 PM -0300 Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > > I've got an NFS server, version 2.4.4, using reiserfs with trond's NFS > patches and the reiser-2.4.4 nfs patch. > > On a client running 2.4.5 with trond's patches and the corresponding > reiser patches, I get the wierdest behaviour: > > # on client > cp libgkcontent.so libgkcontent.so.x > diff libgkcontent.so libgkcontent.so.x > # no diff > > # on server > diff libgkcontent.so libgkcontent.so.x > Binary files libgkcontent.so and libgkcontent.so.x differ > > It _only_ happens in this file of all files I've tried out so far. I'm > trying to get xdelta to show me what's differing so I can see if there's a > pattern or something, but it's awful - data corruption not only possibly > but happening. :-) > > I haven't tried remounting yet to see what I get, but I don't see the > problems on unpatched 2.4.2. I'll wait a bit to see if anyone has seen > this. Anyone? Sounds like some of the problems fixed in 2.4.5 and 2.4.6pre kernels, where NFS data didn't get flushed right away, but I thought that only involved mmap'd files. -chris