Re: reiserfs and nfs.

[Terje Malmedal]

[Nikita Danilov]
> Terje Malmedal writes:
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I'm nfs-exporting a reiserfs filesystem, the problem is that the
>> inode-number as seen from the client seems to change from time to
>> time. This confuses a number of programs, for instance Emacs believes
>> that the file changed under it when this happens.

> This problem is not known. What version of reiserfs (3.5 or 3.6) and
> kernel are you using? Is there any way to reproduce this problem?

On the NFS-server I'm using RedHat kernel 2.4.18-10smp, according to
dmesg I'm using version 3.6 of reiser: 
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 3a:00) ...
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25

(The block device is LVM by the way)

Clients are both Linux and Solaris. 

To reproduce do something like: 
$ ls -li RMAIL
 387607 -rw-------    1 tm       4050     36635726 Nov 20 16:15 RMAIL

on the nfs-client, (obviously on a NFS-file) and wait a bit, varying
from a few minutes to many hours and the inode-number will be
different. I'm guessing the period you have to wait is dependent on
how much else is going on on the NFS-server.

I have no reason to suspect any data-corruption, md5 of file as well
as atime, ctime and mtime are unchanged.

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 - Terje
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