Messages in this thread | | | From | nathan.zook@amd ... | Subject | RE: NFS corruption revisited | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:33:34 -0500 |
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Umm... Would it be out of the question to add a "nopad" option to nfs mounts in /etc/fstab?
Nathan
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Weinehall [SMTP:tao@acc.umu.se] > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 12:03 PM > To: Trond Myklebust > Cc: Alan Cox; Jimmie Mayfield; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: NFS corruption revisited > > On 15 Sep 1999, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: <snip> > > > > Note that you can turn off padding by commenting the line > > #define NFS_PAD_WRITES 1 > > in fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c > > > > If this shows padding to be the problem, then the bug lies with the > > AIX server. It is supposed to read off the request length from the RPC > > structure, rather than to assume things about the packet length. > > Oh, and if it happens to work, *PLEASE* report your success to the list. > Because in that case, I can happily hack up a boot-time option for this. > (It shouldn't be a compile-time option, because it only affects buggy > servers.) > > /David Weinehall > _ _ > // David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /> Northern lights wander \\ > // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // > \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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