Re: Current NFS issues (2.5.59)

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Oleg Drokin <[e-mail]> writes:

    >> this started happening when they upgrade from an earlier 2.5
    >> kernel.

     > I think that earlier report was from David too. This is just
     > more detailed report it seems.

     > And while you are listening - I want to share my own NFs
     > problems in 2.5.59 ;) If I try to mount any NFS exported
     > filesystem from the same host (e.g localhost), mount process
     > hangs in D state. Server appears to work ok though and serves
     > requests from external clients.

...and I am unable to reproduce this 8-)

I have a feeling that something is still not right in the IPv4 socket
layer. There are odd memory corruptions etc which I don't see on the
same code in 2.4.x.
Still hunting though, so I may yet find the problems were in my own
code...

Cheers,
  Trond