From: Bernardo Innocenti Subject: Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:49:48 +0100 Message-ID: <42379ECC.9060100@develer.com> References: <20050315234415.71730.qmail@web26510.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Anders Saaby , Trond Myklebust , lkml , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: Neil Conway In-Reply-To: <20050315234415.71730.qmail@web26510.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Neil Conway wrote: > 766 -> 770 sounds like a "small" (ish) number of patches to check, if > we're lucky. Did you wade through 'em all yet? Any smoking guns? The RPM changelog doesn't contain anything relevant between 766 and 770: ---CUT--- * Thu Feb 24 2005 Dave Jones - Use old scheme first when probing USB. (#145273) * Wed Feb 23 2005 Dave Jones - Try as you may, there's no escape from crap SCSI hardware. (#149402) * Mon Feb 21 2005 Dave Jones - Disable some experimental USB EHCI features. * Tue Feb 15 2005 Dave Jones - Fix bio leak in md layer. ---CUT--- Perhaps the changelog is incomplete. I don't have the two SRPMs at hand to make a comparison. By the way, it seems upgrading to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 just made the bug much harder to trigger: I've definitely seen it once again when I had left a shell sitting in an NFS directory overnight. I couldn't reproduce it a second time. > PS: oh bugger, just remembered that I also reproduced my bug with a > 2.6.8 kernel on the server; admittedly though it was an FC2 kernel so > who knows what extra patches it had. You can easily find out by downloading the SRPM. Now that Fedora provides a public CVS, perhaps it could be used to make such investigations directly with the cvsweb interface without downloading and unpacking a 40MB file. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/