linux-kernel - Re: still nfs problems [Was: Linux 2.6.37-rc8]

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Message-ID: <4D248343.2000407@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:42:11 +0100
From:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:	Jim Rees <rees@...ch.edu>
CC:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <m.kleine-budde@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: still nfs problems [Was: Linux 2.6.37-rc8]

On 01/05/2011 03:29 PM, Jim Rees wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
>   > The "fileid changed" messages popped up after mounting an export with
>   > 'nolock,intr,rsize=4096,soft', and then trying to use bash completion
>   > and 'ls' in a few subdirectories - and entries were missing from the
>   > directory lists without 'ls' reporting any errors (which I think is bad
>   > behaviour in itself.)
>   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?
> 
> Trond sent a fix to the nfs list on 27 Nov for "fileid changed" but I don't
> know if this is the same bug you're seeing.  The patch was to
> nfs_same_file() and I can send it if you want.  As far as I know the patch
> made it upstream.

Are you sure it's in .37?

The pick-axe just found one commit so far
(although it's still searching):

$ git log -Snfs_same_file
commit d39ab9de3b80da5835049b1c3b49da4e84e01c07
Author: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 24 18:50:01 2010 -0400

    NFS: re-add readdir plus

    This patch adds readdir plus support to the cache array.

    Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com>
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>

Would you please be so kind and send the patch to this thread?

cheers, Marc

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