Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-15 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Neil Conway wrote: 766 -> 770 sounds like a "small" (ish) number of patches to check, if we're lucky. Did you wade through 'em all yet? Any smoking guns? The RPM changelog doesn't contain anything relevant between 766 and 770: ---CUT--- * Thu Feb 24 2005 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Use old s

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-15 Thread Neil Conway
Hi Bernardo (et al). Apologies - I've not been reading my account for a wee while. Then again, I probably don't have much useful to add to the debate right now ;-) --- Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anders Saaby wrote: > > Anyways if your server has only run with 2.6.10 - try 2.

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-08 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Anders Saaby wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 08:03, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Trond Myklebust wrote: I also can't reproduce the problem on an older client running 2.4.21. Well, actually I tried harder with the 2.4.21 client and I obtained a similar effect: So, instead of E

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-08 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Trond Myklebust wrote: ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 07:38 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: Two clients started showing the problem after being upgraded from FC2 to FC3, while the server remained unchanged. Can you produce tcpdumps to back that up? Neil's problem appeared rather to be server-related.

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-08 Thread Anders Saaby
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 08:03, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > I also can't reproduce the problem on an older > > client running 2.4.21. > > Well, actually I tried harder with the 2.4.21 > client and I obtained a similar effect: > > So, inst

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Trond Myklebust wrote: I also can't reproduce the problem on an older client running 2.4.21. Well, actually I tried harder with the 2.4.21 client and I obtained a similar effect: naraku:/pub/linux/distro/fedora-devel# ll ls: .: Stale NFS file handle naraku:/pub/linux/distr

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 07:38 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: > Trond Myklebust wrote: > > ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 05:53 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: > > > >>Appears to be a client bug. > > > > Why? > > Two clients started showing the problem after > being upgraded from FC2 to FC3, wh

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Trond Myklebust wrote: ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 05:53 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: Appears to be a client bug. Why? Two clients started showing the problem after being upgraded from FC2 to FC3, while the server remained unchanged. I also can't reproduce the problem on an older client running

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 05:53 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: > Appears to be a client bug. Why? -- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vge

NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Hello, This problem was previously described by Neil Conway. All relevant information here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/10/97 I still see this very same problem on 2.6.11 vanilla and in Fedora/RawHide hernels. It has haunted me for a couple of months on several Fedora clients. Strangely, a Gento