Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262581AbUKEDK2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:10:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262584AbUKEDK1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:10:27 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:42717 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262581AbUKEDKO (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:10:14 -0500 Subject: Re: nfs stale filehandle issues with 2.6.10-rc1 in-kernel server From: Trond Myklebust To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Brad Campbell , lkml In-Reply-To: <418AEC14.3040605@pobox.com> References: <41877751.502@wasp.net.au> <1099413424.7582.5.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <4187E4E1.5080304@pobox.com> <1099431364.7854.17.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <418AEC14.3040605@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:09:52 -0800 Message-Id: <1099624193.25951.17.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 24 to den 04.11.2004 Klokka 21:57 (-0500) skreiv Jeff Garzik: > Not saying that the client is _generating_ the stale filehandle errors, > only saying that they appear to go away when I boot the _client_ into > older 2.6.9 kernels. That would point to some pretty nasty memory corruption issues on the client then (affecting the cached filehandle in the inode itself). So... I can't see that any NFS client changes have been pushed to Linus after the release of 2.6.9-rc2. Is the latter afflicted with the ESTALE problem? Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust - 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/