Bugs in NFS client in Linux 2.2.3 - I need your help to debug it.

Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez (ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:30:11 +0100

I continue seeing problems with Linux 2.2.3 NFS client. I am editing text
files under XEmacs. After long time working, I see that the files on the
server are corrupted with NULLs at the start, or truncated to size 0.
If I look at the files from the Linux client, they look OK. This message
is logged:

nfs_refresh_inode: mismatch, ino=3726, fattr=4085
nfs_refresh_inode: mismatch, ino=3726, fattr=3610
nfs_refresh_inode: mismatch, ino=3726, fattr=3610

This problem happened with kernels 2.2.0preX, 2.2.0 and 2.2.1. It was reported
to this mailing list.

This machine is a Linux 2.2.3, compiled for SMP with 2 Pentium II 350MHz
CPUs.

I cannot debug the problem with tcpdump, because it does not work. When
I try to run tcpdump, it gives this complain:

tcpdump: socket: Socket type not supported

I did not see anything about tcpdump in the file Changes. Do I need to
upgrade it?

Please, give me any hint about how to debug this problem. I would like
to send a kernel patch, but I cannot do so without some help.

Ramon

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