Re: [NFS] some strangeness (at least) with linux-2.4.17-NFS_ALL patch

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Trond Myklebust <[e-mail]> writes:

     > Are you sure that you didn't mess up the fixups with
     > 2.4.18-pre1? That might explain things, since you would be
     > messing with nfs_refresh_inode. What you need to do against
     > 2.4.18-pre1 is first to revert the patch
     > linux-2.4.17-fattr.dif. After that you should be able to apply
     > linux-2.4.17-NFS_ALL.dif directly without any rejections...

Please also note that the version of linux-2.4.17-NFS_ALL.dif that
appeared on my site dated prior to 20th December had a bug within
nfs_refresh_inode that cause corruption of file attributes.
Is it possible that you might be using this buggy version?

Cheers,
  Trond