Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760958AbXIKE6T (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:58:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753353AbXIKE6J (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:58:09 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:46037 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752870AbXIKE6I (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:58:08 -0400 Message-ID: <46E61FEA.9010800@in.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:26:10 +0530 From: suzuki User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trond Myklebust CC: Michal Piotrowski , Kamalesh Babulal , bfields@fieldses.org, neilb@suse.de, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ffilz@us.ibm.com, Poornima Subject: Re: [NFS] [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 kernel BUG at fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:945 References: <46E121B8.4080105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <6bffcb0e0709071656o6881fa17y61818a9733293a4c@mail.gmail.com> <1189289549.13713.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <46E4FC2F.6040105@in.ibm.com> <1189458228.6634.4.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> In-Reply-To: <1189458228.6634.4.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 37 Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:41 +0530, suzuki wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have been trying to debug this issue from my side and could find the >> following. >> >> The pathconf() request gets a reply with : >> >> pathinfo.max_namelen = (unsiged int) -1 >> pathinfo.max_link = 255 >> >> Is this really an expected answer from a server for a proper connection >> ( for mount requests on an exported dir) ? Is there something that needs >> to be fixed at server side ? > > I assume that this is with my patch applied? No. This is without your patch. So I am trying to debug why the server is sending a -1 ! (which sounds like an error ?) Thanks Suzuki K P IBM Linux Technology Centre Yes: as long as the kernel > sets NAME_MAX to 255, then the above is expected behaviour. > > 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/