Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265998AbTGJJK6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:10:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266007AbTGJJK6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:10:58 -0400 Received: from 153.Red-213-4-13.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.4.13.153]:56337 "EHLO small.felipe-alfaro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265998AbTGJJK5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:10:57 -0400 Subject: Re: NFS client errors with 2.5.74? From: Felipe Alfaro Solana To: Jamie Lokier Cc: LKML , trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no In-Reply-To: <20030710054121.GB27038@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030710054121.GB27038@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1057829132.584.0.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 10 Jul 2003 11:25:33 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1168 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 07:41, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I'm seeing quite a lot of NFS client errors with 2.5.74, connected to > a server running 2.4.20-18.9 (Red Hat 9's current kernel). > > All of the errors that I've observed the form of a write() or close() > returning EIO. rsync seeems to have a particularly tough time - > could the unusual size of blocks which rsync writes be relevant? > > There are some read errors too, as Mozilla failed to find my profile > claiming it couldn't read the file (when I restarted Mozilla, it found > it the second time), and Gnome Terminal was unable to read its > preferences file, but I didn't catch any specific read() errors. > > I tried this command to see if the is a protocol error while running > Ethereal: > > [jamie@dual jamie]$ cp .mirMail.bjl1/INBOX .mirMail.bjl1/JBOX > cp: closing `.mirMail.bjl1/JBOX': Input/output error Any chance you are using "hard" NFS mounts? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/