Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265513AbUAJWON (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:14:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265528AbUAJWON (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:14:13 -0500 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]:55273 "EHLO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265513AbUAJWOK (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:14:10 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:14:02 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0 NFS-server low to 0 performance Message-ID: <20040110221402.GB17845@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Trond Myklebust , Guennadi Liakhovetski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1073771855.3958.15.camel@nidelv.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1073771855.3958.15.camel@nidelv.trondhjem.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1250 Lines: 25 On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:57:36PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > 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. I have to admit, I haven't been following NFS on TCP very much. Is the code in the stock 2.4 and 2.6 kernels ready for production use? It seemed from what I read it was still experemental (and even marked as such in the config). - 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/