Re: NFSv4 poops itself

J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-03T19:13:51Z

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:29:00PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:16 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > Jeff and Bruce, could you please try to reproduce the problem after
> > > either applying patches 001 to 004 or just the single NFS_ALL patch
> > > from
> > >
> > > http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.23-rc1/
> >
> >
> > It's not easily reproducible here. Any hints on triggering the behavior?
>
> I suspect that the problem may involve mixing O_RDWR with O_RDONLY
> and/or O_WRONLY file access. Bruce might have a better suggestion,
> though.

I haven't done any more work to identify when exactly the problem is
triggered, but I did confirm that I could reproduce the problem reliably
with current git, but *not* with current git plus your 4-patch nfs-all.

--b.