From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: NFS over TCP: random drop
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:42:24 +0100
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To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:05:30PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> However if the server disconnects us *while we are reconnecting*, then
> the soft request will fail with an EIO. This seems like sensible
> behaviour to me: a server which is accepting a connection then
> immediately breaking it is fundamentally broken...

But the Linux nfsd seems to be doing exactly this - it accepts the
connection, then randomly drops either the oldest or the newest one
(in terms of activity). The one at the head of the queue happens to be
the one we just accepted.

Olaf
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