Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262192AbTKNIoU (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 03:44:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262228AbTKNIoU (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 03:44:20 -0500 Received: from port-213-148-149-130.reverse.qsc.de ([213.148.149.130]:19978 "EHLO eumucln02.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262192AbTKNIoS (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 03:44:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: nfs_statfs: statfs error = 116 To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Jesse Pollard , Linux kernel , root@chaos.analogic.com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0.2CF1 June 9, 2003 Message-ID: From: Martin.Knoblauch@mscsoftware.com Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:43:39 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on EUMUCLN02/MSCsoftware(Release 6.0.2CF1|June 9, 2003) at 11/14/2003 09:45:04 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 45 Trond Myklebust wrote on 11/13/2003 09:34:55 PM: > >>>>> " " == Jesse Pollard writes: > > > ESTALE should occur whenever the client looses connection to > > the server, or thinks it has lost connection. > > No it should not. > > Cheers, > Trond Hi Trond, just by incident I found one reason when an user space application can get the ESTALE in our setup (Linux client RH-2.4.20-18.7smp, Solaris 2.8 Server). I accidentally run iozone on two clients with the output file being the same and residing on the NFS Server. Pure luser error, but it produced ESTALE pretty much reproducibly. B^HCheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch Senior System Architect MSC.software GmbH Am Moosfeld 13 D-81829 Muenchen, Germany e-mail: martin.knoblauch@mscsoftware.com http://www.mscsoftware.com Phone/Fax: +49-89-431987-189 / -7189 Mobile: +49-174-3069245 - 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/