Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:07:40 +1100 (EST) | Subject | Re: [NFS] Help: 2.2.18 NFS is corrupting our files |
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On January 22, patl@curl.com wrote: > We have a LAN with about 40 Linux systems on it. We use the Berkeley > "customs" suite to perform parallelized builds of our product. So we > hammer NFS pretty hard; 30-40 machines can be simultaneously reading > and writing a single build tree through NFS. > > We upgraded one of our developers to 2.2.18. We also upgraded all of > our systems to the latest nfs-utils (0.2.1) and mount (2.10m) packages > from <http://nfs.sourceforge.net/>. > > As a result, we now have a large number of 2.2.17 NFS clients reading > and writing to a 2.2.18 NFS server. The server (the developer's > desktop system) is SMP, and all of our systems have ECC memory. > > This developer is now regularly seeing two problems which began with > the 2.2.18 upgrade. First, remote clients occasionally get "stale NFS > file handle" errors for no apparent reason. Second, some of the files > are being corrupted.
Could you retry after applying patches from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/knfsd-2.2/
particularly patch-B-sema.
Thanks,
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