From: Michael Madore <Michael.Madore@aslab.com>
Subject: find_exported_dentry: npd != pd
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:42:02 -0800
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Hi,

I was running dbench from a Linux 2.6.11 NFS client to a Linux 2.6.11
NFS server and received many copies of the following message in the
server's syslog:

find_exported_dentry: npd != pd

I found the following comment in fs/exportfs/expfs.c:

/* we didn't really want npd, we really wanted
 * a side-effect of the lookup.
 * hopefully, npd == pd, though it isn't really
 * a problem if it isn't
 */

So, is this error message really harmless?  The reason I'm asking is
because a lot of users will panic upon seeing any unusual messages in
syslog.

Thanks

Mike



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