Re: On current git head webservers stopped working

[walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13 2007, Gabriel C wrote:
>> Hello ,
>>
>> While doing some tests with 2.6.22-git2 ( at the time head
>> 4eb6bf6bfb580afaf1e1a1d30cba17a078530cf4 ) all my webservers stopped
>> working.
>> I can't get any file using wget or whatever else , everything hangs
>> after 1% forever.
>>
>> I bisected this and here the result:
>>
>> 534f2aaa6ab07cd71164180bc958a7dcde41db11 is first bad commit
>> commit 534f2aaa6ab07cd71164180bc958a7dcde41db11
>> Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
>> Date:   Fri Jun 1 14:52:37 2007 +0200
>>
>>     sys_sendfile: switch to using ->splice_read, if available
...

> Does this work?
<patch snipped>

Hi Jens,
I was hoping this patch would fix a different problem caused by the
same merge of 'splice-2.6.23' three days ago, but it didn't.

When I run nfsd on the latest git kernel, it serves up what seems to
be the wrong inodes for every fetched file.  I can navigate the served
directory structure with no problems, but the contents of any file I
fetch are completely unrelated to the real contents.

Does this suggest a possible cause or fix?

Thanks.