To: Ramon van Alteren <ramon@vanalteren.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Writing to an NFS share truncates files on >8Tb Raid + LVM2
References: <43FB3208.7020303@vanalteren.nl>
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 22 Feb 2006 18:36:32 +0100
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Ramon van Alteren <ramon@vanalteren.nl> writes:
> 
> Which seems to indicate that RAID + LVM + complex storage and
> 4KSTACKS can cause problems. However I can't find the 4KSTACK symbol
> anywhere in my config. Can't find the 8KSTACK symbol anywhere either :-(

4K stacks is unlikely to cause problems like this. If you have a stack
overflow things crash badly, not break subtly like they do in your case.

Sounds like a bad bug. Best you work with the NFS maintainers to 
track it down. See MAINTAINERS how to reach them.

-Andi
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