Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261713AbTHZSbt (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:31:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262047AbTHZSbt (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:31:49 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:63122 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261713AbTHZSbr (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:31:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:34:29 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Steve Lord Cc: suparna@in.ibm.com, barryn@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.0-test4-mm1: NFS+XFS=data corruption Message-Id: <20030826113429.1440b0d0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1061920640.25889.1404.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> References: <20030824171318.4acf1182.akpm@osdl.org> <20030825193717.GC3562@ip68-4-255-84.oc.oc.cox.net> <20030825124543.413187a5.akpm@osdl.org> <1061852050.25892.195.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> <20030826031412.72785b15.akpm@osdl.org> <20030826110111.GA4750@in.ibm.com> <20030826104458.448d1eea.akpm@osdl.org> <1061920640.25889.1404.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 14 Steve Lord wrote: > > Does rpm use readv/writev though? Or does the nfs server? not sure > how this change would affect the original problem report. The NFS server uses multisegment writev. RPM was running at the other end of the ethernet, so it doesn't really matter what sort of write RPM is issuing. - 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/