Re: BUG REPORT: kernel nfs between 2.4.19-pre2 (server) and 2.2.21-pre3 (client)

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

> >>>>> " " == Stephan von Krawczynski <[e-mail]> writes:     
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>      > Hello all, I just upgraded a host from 2.2.19 to 2.2.21-pre3 
>      > and discovered a problem with kernel nfs. Setup is this:     
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>      > knfs-server is 2.4.19-pre2 knfs-client is 2.2.21-pre3        
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>      > First mount some fs (mountpoint /backup). Then go and mount  
>      > some other fs from the same server (mountpoint /mnt), do some
>      > i/o on the latter and umount it again. Now try to access     
>      > /backup. You see:                                            
>      > 1) /backup (as a fs) vanished, you get a stale nfs handle.   
>      > 2) umount /backup; mount /backup does not work. client tells 
>      >    "permission denied". server tells "rpc.mountd: getfh      
failed:                                                               
>      >    Operation not permitted"                                  
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> By 'some fs' do you mean ext2?                                      
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> Not all filesystems work well with knfsd when things start to drop  
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> of the (d|i)caches. In particular things like /backup == VFAT might 
> give the above behaviour, since VFAT does not know how to map the   
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> file handles into on-disk inodes.                                   
                                                                      
Sorry Trond,                                                          
                                                                      
this is a weak try of an explanation. All involved fs types are       
reiserfs. The problem occurs reproducably only after (and including)  
2.2.20 and above and _not_ in 2.2.19. There must be some problem.     
Though I do not know whether the problem is on the client side, or    
simply produced by this client side and effectively located on 2.4.18 
server, I really can't tell. But giving me something to try might     
clear the picture.                                                    
                                                                      
Any hints?                                                            
                                                                      
Stephan