linux-kernel - Re: NFS root broken in 2.6.18-rc2-mm1

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Message-Id: <1154614928.5774.8.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:22:07 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS root broken in 2.6.18-rc2-mm1

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 06:50 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> FYI,
> 
> I tried to boot 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 on a nfsroot system with x86-64 defconfig.
> 
> Unfortunately it seems to generate lots of random EIO while reading executables 
> during the startup sequence, which causes some things to break. Writing
> also doesn't seem to work - it complains about EPERM for that.
> Not all executables error out, but at least some.
> 
> The same setup works fine with mainline 2.6.18-rc*

Known issue. The attached patch ought to fix it...

Cheers,
  Trond

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