Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265399AbUAJV5k (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:57:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265405AbUAJV5k (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:57:40 -0500 Received: from pcp05127596pcs.sanarb01.mi.comcast.net ([68.42.103.198]:42384 "EHLO nidelv.trondhjem.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265399AbUAJV5i convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:57:38 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.0 NFS-server low to 0 performance From: Trond Myklebust To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: Mike Fedyk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <1073771855.3958.15.camel@nidelv.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:57:36 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 20 P? lau , 10/01/2004 klokka 15:04, skreiv Guennadi Liakhovetski: > Not change - keep (from 2.4). You see, the problem might be - somebody > updates the NFS-server from 2.4 to 2.6 and then suddenly some clients fail > to work with it. Seems a non-obvious fact, that after upgrading the server > clients' configuration might have to be changed. At the very least this > must be documented in Kconfig. Non-obvious????? You have to change modutils, you have to upgrade nfs-utils, glibc, gcc... and that's only the beginning of the list. 2.6.x is a new kernel it differs from 2.4.x, which again differs from 2.2.x, ... Get over it! There are workarounds for your problem, so use them. Trond - 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/