From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265639AbUATUM2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:12:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265642AbUATUM2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:12:28 -0500 Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net ([64.164.98.52]:59590 "EHLO mtaw4.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265639AbUATUM0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:12:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:12:12 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Patrick Mau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: [SOLVED] Stale Filehandles was: [2.6] nfs_rename: target $file busy, d_count=2 Message-ID: <20040120201212.GH23765@srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Patrick Mau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com References: <20040116050642.GF1748@srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com> <20040116130336.GA5220@oscar.prima.de> <20040116184031.GM1748@srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com> <20040116185504.GN1748@srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com> <20040117184716.GX1748@srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040117184716.GX1748@srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:47:16AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:55:04AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > I only had a few nfs clients doing light load, (kde home directories, and > > > such) and was able to reproduce stale nfs file handles just by running "find > > > > /dev/null" on the nfs share. > > > > > > Have you tried the -mm tree recently? 2.6.1-mm4 even has some new nfsd > > > patches in there (maybe you should wait until -mm5 though, there are a few > > > > Stale filehandles is the main problem right now, and I don't see how > > nfs_raname would be related (just that it was there while I was having > > trouble with the stale file handles...) > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm4/broken-out/nfsd-01-stale-filehandles-fixes.patch > > > > This one looks particularly interesting... > > > > I'm running 2.6.1-bk2-nfs-stale-file-handles on my nfsd server now, and so > far I haven't seen any stale filehandles. > > Can you guys patch stock 2.6.1 with the above and test also so we can get > more breadth in the testing results? > Well, it's been running since friday with the same load that killed it in less than a day, so I'm happy. And BTW, the code has been merged by Linus and is in 2.6.1-bk6. Mike