Return-Path: Received: from borg.medozas.de ([188.40.89.202]:43991 "EHLO borg.medozas.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753805Ab0K1R4i (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:56:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:56:37 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "J. Bruce Fields" cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS: server error: fileid changed In-Reply-To: <20101128160543.GA18889@fieldses.org> Message-ID: References: <20101128160543.GA18889@fieldses.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Sunday 2010-11-28 17:05, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 03:23:23PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Sometime between 2.6.33 and 2.6.36 it seems, knfsd has become really >> unreliable, having clients start to emit messages like >> >> (nfsv3) >> [42306.521225] NFS: server nova error: fileid changed >> [42306.521226] fsid 0:10: expected fileid 0x1b007be, got 0x1b006b0 >> >> On nfsv4, it is even worse, as updates on the server are not immediately >> reflected on the client like it was the case on nfsv3. >> Unfortunately, that is all the information I currently have. >> (Server is on 2.6.36-rc8, client on 2.6.37-rc1.) > >Have you really being changing only the server, or have you been >changing the client at the same time? > >See e.g. > http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=129088225122788&w=2 For my definition of not touching the server yes. (There may be atime updates, but that's about it.)