Re: 2.4.8 NFS Problems

From: Steffen Persvold (sp@scali.no)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 09:40:35 EST


Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> >>>>> " " == Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.no> writes:
>
> >> I've been getting random NFS EIO errors for a few months but
> >> now it's repeatable. Trying to copy a large file from one 2.4.8
> >> SMP box to another is consistently failing (at different
> >> offsets >each time).
>
> Please try the patch on
>
> http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.17/linux-2.4.17-fattr.dif
>
> that fixes at least 1 such EIO error which was discovered using fsx.
>

I can do that, but since one of the clients reporting this problem is an Alpha machine running
2.2.19 the patch won't do much good (not that the patch is architecture dependent, but it's only for
2.4.17). Has this patch been there since 2.2 or is it a new "feature" in the "stable" #:) 2.4
kernels.

Regards,

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