Re: nfs version 2 access and kernel 2.6.x freeze

[Axel Beier]

Hi John,
no success. Tested with 2.6.1-mm3 and pre-emption off. System freezes 
after 10-20 seconds during reading data from the nfs-server.

Axel

John Bradford schrieb:
> Quote from Axel Beier <axel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > after upgrading to kernel 2.6.0 on client-side i cannot copy data from 
> > my (old) nfs server. The server is old (running SuSE 7.1 with a 2.4.19 
> > kernel) and supports only nfs version 2.
> > But with kernels 2.6.0 upto 2.6.1-mm2 after few seconds of copying a 
> > remote-file to the client the client hangs completely.
> > Kernel was compiled with gcc 3.3.1 and has preemptive enable.
>
>
> Try disabling pre-emption.  It is known to make some hard to trigger
> bugs happen much more frequently.  If this appears to fix it, please
> let us know.
>
> John.
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