On Saturday, June 02, 2001 02:41:04 PM +0200 Andreas Hartmann
<andihartmann@freenet.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 12:52 schrieb Rasmus Bøg Hansen:
>> On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>> > I got massive file corruptions with the kernels mentioned in the
>> > subject. I can reproduce it every time.
>> >> You cannot use NFS on reiserfs unless you apply the knfsd patch. Look at
>> www.namesys.com.
> > Thank you very much for your advice.
> > I tested your suggestion and run the machine without NFS-mounted devices
> - it seems to be working fine. > > Anyway - I'm wondering why I didn't get any problem until 2.4.4ac10 with
> this configuration without the appropriate patch on the client or on the
> server?
The problem only happens when the clients do an operation on a file that
has gone out of cache on the server. Under light load, this might happen
very rarely.
You only need the patch on the server.
-chris
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