still nfs problems [Was: Linux 2.6.37-rc8]

[Trond Myklebust]

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 18:25 -0800, Andy Isaacson wrote: 
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:53:13AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > There was a bug in at least -rc5[1] that was considered already fixed in
> > > -rc4[2]. The later announcements didn't mention it anymore. 
> > > 
> > > > I don't know why it's stopped producing the errors, although once it
> > > > went I never investigated it any further (was far too busy trying to
> > > > get AMBA DMA support working.)
> > > It seems it was fixed for most users though. Trond?
> > 
> > As I said, I can't reproduce it.
> > 
> > I'm seeing a lot of mention of ARM above. Is anyone seeing this bug on
> > x86, or does it appear to be architecture-specific?
> 
> I'm seeing processes stuck in D with "fileid changed" in dmesg, on
> x86_64 (both server and client).  The repro testcase is to run an
> executable off of NFS, recompile it on the server, and then try to tab
> complete the executable name.  The client prints
> 
>     NFS: server <hostname> error: fileid changed
>     fsid 0:18: expected fileid 0x107aa4a, got 0x107ad3e
> 
> and /bin/zsh hangs in D.
> 
> My server is running 2.6.36.1, filesystem is ext3 on sda3 on AHCI,
> client is currently running 2.6.37-rc1.  I'm assuming that 37a09f will
> fix it.

Why are you sticking to 2.6.37-rc1 when the final 2.6.37 is out? There
have been several readdir bugfixes merged in the months since -rc1 came
out.

Trond
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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