From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nix Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:35:03 +0000 Subject: Re: strange sparc64 -> i586 intermittent but reproducible NFS write errors to one and only one fs Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Trond Myklebust said: > It sounds rather strange that this particular patch should introduce > an EIO, but here it is (fresh from BitKeeper) ... and indeed it doesn't. The problem still exists in -pre9, but is very much rarer and harder to replicate; I've sene it only half a dozen times in two weeks, in each case during an ftp retrieval; I'm assuming there's something about the write patterns used by ncftp (lots of few-KB appends, far apart in time) that triggers it. So it really is merely a timing change that has brought a pre-existing problem into the light. I'm going to try to come up with something that consistently reproduces this as well, so I can track down the origins of this bug more correctly. -- 2003-02-01: the day the STS died.