Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:19:32 -0700 | | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | | Subject | Re: nfs stale filehandle issues with 2.6.10-rc1 in-kernel server |
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jmerkey@galt.devicelogics.com wrote:
>>Nope. I'm not seeing that at all (besides, that is entirely unrelated to >>ESTALE errors). >> >>Mind telling us how to reproduce the problem? >> >>Cheers, >> Trond >> >>-- >>Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> >> >> > >Connect 2.4.18 and 2.6.9 with NFS 3 enabled. I am seeing problems >connecting and file size mismatches. I also see errors with zero >length files (host side) that get opened and populated with data >and the remote side is unable to read them -- keeps seeing >them as zero length. > >I can setup this back up tommorrow morning in the lab and provide >you all sorts of good debug and trace info. The problem seems to >happen if the local side from the FS has open handles and starts >writing blocks to a zero length file, and the remote side doesn't >seem to see the data right away. > >On typical FS read behavior, even if the file has a zero length, this >seems to be ignored and read requests continue until read returns >0 bytes read for file size. On the remote side, if the file size >is not reflected, this is not the behavior, and probably should >be. I can see someone truncating or changing a file size and NFS >gets into a weird state. > >Mismatches between configured v2/v3/v4 NFS configs between kernels >also have some issues. Please provide me with a sample /etc/exports >config you wish me to use exporting a directory you think would be >helpful and I'll test and provide pcap traces of the traffic between >the nodes. > >Jeff > > > > >
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