Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:31:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:31:21 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:60432 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:31:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3C8CDBCA.8010402@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:31:06 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan von Krawczynski CC: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, green@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: kernel nfs between 2.4.19-pre2 (server) and 2.2.21-pre3 (client) In-Reply-To: <200203110018.BAA11921@webserver.ithnet.com> <15499.64058.442959.241470@charged.uio.no> <20020311091458.A24600@namesys.com> <20020311114654.2901890f.skraw@ithnet.com> <20020311135256.A856@namesys.com> <20020311155937.A1474@namesys.com> <20020311154852.3981c188.skraw@ithnet.com> <20020311165140.A1839@namesys.com> <15500.47144.705329.809604@charged.uio.no> <20020311165722.692209c3.skraw@ithnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:59:04 +0100 >Trond Myklebust wrote: > >>>>>>>" " == Oleg Drokin writes: >>>>>>> >> > Trod, do you think that'll work or should some other non-ext2 >> > fs be tried? >> >>Ext2 should work fine: I've never seen any problems such as that which >>Stephan describes, and certainly not with 2.4.18 clients. >> >>In any case, any occurence of an ESTALE error *must* first have >>originated from the server. The client itself cannot determine that a >>filehandle is stale. >> > >Next try: >I have now in addition to the /backup and /mnt reiserfs exports created another >ext2 export. First test case: >mount /backup, mount the ext2 fs on /test, then mount /mnt, do i/o on /mnt and >umount /mnt. >After that everything works! /test works _and_ /backup works! > >Second test case: (server and client have several network cards, so I can mount >on other ips as well) >mount /backup, mount /mnt on ip1, mount /test on ip2 (from same server). do i/o >on /mnt and umount /mnt. >After that /test works, but/backup is stale. > >Conclusion: reiserfs has a problem being nfs-mounted as the only fs to a >client. If you add another fs (here ext2) mount, then even reiserfs is happy. >The problem is originated at the server side. > >Any ideas for a fix? > >Regards, >Stephan > >- >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/ > > Oleg will be back at work in 16 hours;-) Hans - 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/