Re: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Frank Cusack <[e-mail]> writes:

     > Hi, [Previously sent to nfs@sourceforge with no response]

     > I'm using a frankenstein kernel, 2.4.21-rc3 with some -ac bits,
     > and 2.5.69 NFS+RPC backported to it.  Like the CITI kernel (for
     > krb5), but a little more aggressive on the bits backported.
     > For the purpose of this email, I think the code I have
     > questions with is similar or even identical from
     > 2.4.21->2.5.69.  I can reproduce this problem on a RH
     > 2.4.20-9smp kernel.

     > Consider these two shells running on the same machine:

     > 	    1 2

     > 	cd /nfs cd /nfs mkdir t echo foo > t/foo less t/foo
     > 	 [less waits for input]
     > 					rm -rf t
     > 	'v'
     > 	 [vi tries to access tmp/foo]

     > At this point, fs/nfs/inode.c:__nfs_refresh_inode() prints the
     > "inode number mismatch" error.  AFAICT, this is just noise, but
     > the noise is driving me crazy. :-)

Inode number mismatch points to either an an obvious server error (it
is not providing unique filehandles) or corruption of the fattr struct
that was passed to nfs_refresh_inode().

Cheers,
  Trond