From: Vlad Glagolev Subject: Re: NFS and /dev/mdXpY Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:51:00 +0400 Message-ID: <20100422235100.0616ce1d.stealth@sourcemage.org> References: <20100417195747.5fae8834.stealth@sourcemage.org> <20100422182543.GB8858@fieldses.org> <20100422225310.38e37038.stealth@sourcemage.org> <20100422193236.GA10302@fieldses.org> <1271965650.593.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Thu__22_Apr_2010_23_51_00_+0400_2bKlKeLGbH.GxWS7" Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1271965650.593.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --Signature=_Thu__22_Apr_2010_23_51_00_+0400_2bKlKeLGbH.GxWS7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:47:30 -0400 Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:32 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:=20 > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:53:10PM +0400, Vlad Glagolev wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:25:43 -0400 > > > "J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > > >=20 > > > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 07:57:47PM +0400, Vlad Glagolev wrote: > > > > > Well, hello there, > > > > >=20 > > > > > Posted it on linux-kernel ML also, and post it here, for more spe= cific analysis. > > > > >=20 > > > > > I faced this problem today while trying to mount some NFS share o= n OpenBSD box. > > > > > I mounted it successfully without any visible errors, but I wasn'= t able to cd there, the printed error was: > > > > >=20 > > > > > ksh: cd: /storage - Stale NFS file handle > > > > >=20 > > > > > Apropos, the partition is 5.5 TB. I tried another one on my box a= nd it was mounted successfully. It was possible to manage files there too. = Its size is ~3GB. > > > > > That's why the first time I thought about some size limitations o= f OpenBSD/Linux/NFS. > > > > >=20 > > > > > While talking on #openbsd @ freenode, I discovered this via tcpdu= mp on both sides: > > > > >=20 > > > > > http://pastebin.ca/1864713 > > > > >=20 > > > > > Googling for 3 hours didn't help at all, some posts had similiar = issue but either with no answer at all or without any full description. > > > > >=20 > > > > > Then I started to experiment with another Linux box to kill the p= ossible different variants. > > > > >=20 > > > > > On another box I also have nfs-utils 1.1.6 and kernel 2.6.32. Mou= nting that big partition was unsuccessful, it got just stuck. On tcpdump I'= ve seen this: > > > >=20 > > > > I'm a bit confused. What kernel and nfs-utils version is running o= n the > > > > problematic Linux server? > > >=20 > > > same. nfs-utils 1.1.6 and kernel 2.6.32. > >=20 > > Huh. That should be new enough for it to be using uuid's. I wonder why > > it isn't? >=20 > What are the contents of /dev/disk/by-uuid? >=20 $ ls -1 /dev/disk/by-uuid/ 0e9742f6-44e3-431c-911f-4c914e4f81d5 31ae89c6-dba6-4351-b3a9-e8b08be07c3d 4429ba7a-afd2-4c61-83a0-900dae1bccdc 463bbc42-c19b-4b9e-bae7-838ac0e2e5c6 473b9320-88a4-44eb-b592-2ac98619bc9b 53d16b07-d496-4f8f-ad59-ea34aaf169f4 6adf1c55-405c-43cf-a84d-be5d2746d300 b35a7bca-12ad-4738-a895-52f20b7cc5d9 dc892f1f-0b83-41dd-bde7-0761295f33a3 f7ac4165-320f-4235-a78a-5fe1bd0aac24 --=20 Dont wait to die to find paradise... -- Cheerz, Vlad "Stealth" Glagolev --Signature=_Thu__22_Apr_2010_23_51_00_+0400_2bKlKeLGbH.GxWS7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvQqKQACgkQ8Hg3cBKtRUlInACgkVQend4qk97eZEYXht/Tmr06 3y8AoJQsjs6HfkfjeDtk0bBDLuQj84Um =qW/S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Thu__22_Apr_2010_23_51_00_+0400_2bKlKeLGbH.GxWS7--