From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: 2.6.34rc4 NFS writeback regression (bisected): client often fails to delete things it just created Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:13:44 -0400 Message-ID: <1271621624.8049.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <87tyr9dfvv.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271618484.8049.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87vdboa7e0.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271620750.8049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87mxx0a5pc.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Nix Return-path: Received: from mail-out2.uio.no ([129.240.10.58]:43651 "EHLO mail-out2.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752529Ab0DRUNu (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:13:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87mxx0a5pc.fsf-AdTWujXS48Mg67Zj9sPl2A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 21:03 +0100, Nix wrote: > On 18 Apr 2010, Trond Myklebust said: > > > On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 20:27 +0100, Nix wrote: > >> On 18 Apr 2010, Trond Myklebust verbalised: > >> tip-of-tree includes that commit, and it's still happening for me there. > >> (Just verified again.) > > > > Does a 'sync' clear out the sillyrenamed files? > > Yes. OK. Next question is how these files are being written. If you 'strace' the process, do you see ordinary write() calls being used, or is the file perhaps being written via mmap()?