From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Error 512
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:13:06 -0500
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On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:42 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> I'm still seeing a moderate number of errors like this on clients (both 
> centos-3 and centos-4) connected to my centos-4 servers:
> 
> RPC: error 512 connecting to server $HOSTNAME
> nfs_statfs: statfs error = 512
> 
> associated with mounted FSs becoming unavailable for periods of time (not 
> sure exactly how long, but on the order of 10-15 minutes).  What exactly 
> is error 512, and where does it point me to for the purposes of fixing 
> this?

Error 512 is ERESTARTSYS. It means you interrupted the RPC call...

There is a patch going in to 2.6.16 that will remove that error message.

Cheers,
  Trond



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