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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Re[4]: PROBLEM: page allocation or what in 2.6.8.1
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Harry Edmon <harry@atmos.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> So far, no crash.  But now I have NFS clients that from time to time are unable
> to access this server.  The server has the following messages on it:
> 
> Aug 31 15:16:43 funnel rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted
> 
> I can temporarily fix the problem by typing:
> 
> exportfs -ar
> 
> But eventually it happens again.
> 

Well there were a few other NFS fixes.  Can you test the latest kernel
from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/ ?