From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Organization: CC CTU Prague
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:19:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: NFS mountned  directory  and apache2 (2.5.47)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, richard@bouska.cz
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On 15 Nov 02 at 19:10, Trond Myklebust wrote:

>      > Hello In 2.45.47 and 2.5.46 (at least) did not try any other am
>      > I not able to serve files bigger than 255 bytes by apache2 from
>      > nfs mounted directory. The local files are served correctly.
> 
> Looks like whoever it was that changed the 'sendfile' API forgot to
> update NFS. Try the following patch.

It does not change anything on the brokeness of apache2 (or maybe
glibc). It must be able to revert to read/write loop if sendfile fails
with EINVAL. There is no guarantee that existing sendfile() API means
that you can use it with all filesystems.
                                            Best regards,
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                
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