Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:07:38 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Poor NFSv4 first impressions |
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Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Being a big user of NFS at home, and a big fan of NFSv4, it was high >> time that I converted my home network from NFSv3 to NFSv4. >> >> Unfortunately applications started breaking left and right. vim >> noticeably malfunctioned, trying repeatedly to create a swapfile (sorta >> like a lockfile). Mozilla Thunderbird would crash reproducibly whenever >> it tried anything remotely major with a mailbox, such as compressing >> folders (removing deleted messages). > [snip] > > This has all the symptoms to an open EACCES NFSv4 bug in 2.6.18/19. > This is fixed in: > > http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/kernel-patches/2.6.19-rc3-2/linux-2.6.19-rc3-CITI_NFS4_ALL-2.diff > > (see http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/). > > With this patch, I can run just great with NFSv4 home dir (etc) > mounts; without, I get the symptom of many 0-byte temporary/lock files > being created and often the inability to create files (!). Be sure to > allow callback delegation connections in through your firewall for the > extra performance ;-) . > > Maybe it's too late for these fixes 2.6.19, but they should certainly > make 2.6.19.1 IMHO.
If NFSv4 really works that poorly without the patches, perhaps they should go in 2.6.19 at the start. I'm surprised others aren't having this problem, I thought there was more test use.
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