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SubjectRe: NFS and 2.1.111
Alan Cox wrote:

> > or possibly .../rpc_debug. The output may be voluminous, but to track down the
> > problem it would help to know what NFS or RPC routine is failing.
>
> The current NFS client code is broken. It has been since early 2.1.x. It
> makes one assumption that its safe to manipulate sockets from the received
> data callback which isnt unfortunately true.
>
> I've had a look at the area of code concerned and while its probably safe
> for UDP (it may not be SMP safe) its not safe for TCP and not easily fixable
> as I had hoped.
>
> If nobody else has had time in a few weeks I may have another look at it
>


I can now trace down the exact problem. I'm using an automounter
(autofs). When the unmount timeout occurs, the "Input/output error"
happens. This doesn't affect manually mounted drives.

SO...

To reproduce the error without the automounter, I did the following:

I made a 40MB file of zero's

"dd if=/dev/zero of=40M bs=$((1024*1024)) count=40"

I then mounted my nfs public directory

"mount pulsar:/export/home/public /a"

Then I tried to copy it from my local hard drive to my NFS mounted
directory.

"[root@bofh jfulmer]# cp 40M /a
cp: overwrite `/a/40M'? y"

Then I switch to another xterm and try to umount /a

"[root@bofh jfulmer]# umount /a
umount: /a: device is busy
[root@bofh jfulmer]# "

As soon as I do this, the nfs transfer fails with:

"cp: /a/40M: Input/output error
[root@bofh jfulmer]#"


Apparently just trying to unmount a busy nfs filesystem is enough to
cause the error. This must be reletively new, since it worked in the
earlier 2.1.10x kernels (It errors in 2.1.109 BTW.)

Thanks,

jf





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