On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:19:23PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> Could you please try with a newer kernel. The close-to-open cache
> consistency fixes are a relatively recent addition to the Linux NFS
> client. I dunno if RedHat's 2.4.18 kernel has them.
> 
>   2.4.7 certainly does not.

I tried again with the 2.4.20 based kernel that Red Hat released
yesterday (2.4.20-13.7bigmem).  The problem that I was seeing occurs
less frequently there, but it still happens.

I have attached a program which can reproduce this.  If you run it
under 2.4.7 it fails instantly.  If you use 2.4.20 it may take a
minute or so but it will also fail.

Thanks,

Jim

PS: Do you know if there is any way to work around this problem from
    within my program?

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