Re: NFS problems, 2.5.5x

[David Ford]

The last time NFS was working, I had 2.4.19 and 2.5.53 clients on a 
2.5.59 server, that was yesterday.  I had experienced a slight problem 
with it last week when my 2.5.53 client was booted for first time on 
2.5.5x, it was previously a 2.4 kernel.  The server OOPSed repeatedly 
shortly after bootup in NFS stuff then it never happened again and was 
rock solid until today.

David

Trond Myklebust wrote:

>>>>>>" " == David Ford <[e-mail]> writes:
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>     > Synopsis: nfsserver:/home/david mount, get dir. entries loops
>     > forever,
>     > 2.5.59 for client and server.
>
>     > Example: ls -l /home/david
>
>     > An strace will show the same directory entries flying by over
>     > and over until memory is exhausted or ^c comes along.  It
>     > worked at first for about 30 minutes while I finished the new
>     > gentoo install on my desktop, but then things got weird.  the
>     > nfs server spat out a big long callback trace (oops) and died
>     > hard.  Had to reset the power.  The looping started just
>     > minutes before that.  I've rebooted, tried 2.5.53 on the client
>     > but no go.
>
>AFAICR, there have been no changes to the NFS client readdir code since
>2.5.30.
>
>Cheers,
>  Trond
>  
>