From: Kasparek Tomas <kasparek@fit.vutbr.cz>
Subject: Re: NFS corruption in 2.6.18.2?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:24:56 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:17:38PM +0100, Kasparek Tomas wrote:
> 
> > >have seen this behaviour with kernel 2.6.18 and above up to 19-rc4.
> > > Reported this, but no response.
> > > 
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/28/89
> >
> > Your test script doesn't use any form of locking. How are you ensuring
> > that only one client has the file open at a time?
> 
> I use no locking at all, it's just synthetic test, I don't expect data to
> be ordered or whatever, but the problem is blocks of zeros inserted.
> It behaves right with the last 2.6.16.32, zeros are contained if clients
> are 2.6.18.3 and 2.6.19-rc4. 
> 
> I'm going to do more testing in next few days, so hoe bring some new info.
> 
> As I wrote before, it does not depend on the server (tried with FreeBSD
> server and several versions of linux 2.6.16.x and 2.6.18.x).

Just update: 2.6.17.14 is ok

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