Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:47:41 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:32:29PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:

 > That is a server bug. There are no rules for congestion control
 > etc. in the NFS or SunRPC protocols, so the server is supposed to be
 > able to cope with whatever the client manages to throw at it.
 > 
 > I presume, though, that you are not seeing the 2.4.x NFS server die in
 > this way when you blast it with a 2.5 client?

I had thought that the 2.4 server survived this. I just did a test
with a 2.4.21pre7 kernel and found the same behaviour, so this isn't
a regression, just something thats not very nice.

		Dave

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