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

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:22:19 -0800
From:	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	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 Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:40:23PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > 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.

No good reason, just hadn't run into any reasons to update; switching
kernels is nonzero cost since the machine in question runs some out of
tree modules ergo updating is slightly more involved than "make && make
install".  Above and beyond the costs of rebooting and losing state.

Actual bug is obviously a good reason to update though.

-andy
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