Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: strange sparc64 -> i586 intermittent but reproducible NFS write errors to one and only one fs | From | Nix <> | Date | 03 Feb 2003 17:35:03 +0000 |
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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.
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