On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:29:51PM -0700, Dale Stimson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:59:52AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:24:49PM -0700, Dale Stimson wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:16:14 -0500, David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If a filesystem being written to via NFS returns a short write count > > > > (as opposed to an error) to nfsd, nfsd treats that as a success for > > > > the entire write, rather than the short count that actually succeeded. > > > > > > > > For example, given a 8192 byte write, if the underlying filesystem > > > > only writes 4096 bytes, nfsd will ack back to the nfs client that all > > > > 8192 bytes were written. The nfs client does have retry logic for > > > > short writes, but this is never called as the client is told the > > > > complete write succeeded. > > > ... > > > > Here is a patch to properly return the short write count to the > > > > client. > > > [patch elided] > > > > > > I bring this to your attention so you may, if you choose, look into > > > this further: > > > > > > Problem synopsis: > > > An old client (running RHL 9 with kernel "2.4.20-43.9.legacy") > > > attempts to seek on a file mounted over nfs. The operation fails > > > with "Illegal seek" or "Input/Output error". The server is running > > > Fedora 11 kernel-PAE-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i686, which includes the > > > short write patch. When this kernel is re-built without the short > > > write patch, everything works as before. > > > > Does that server kernel have some version of > > a0d24b295aed7a9daf4ca36bd4784e4d40f82303 "nfsd: fix hung up of nfs > > client while sync write data to nfs server" applied? > > No. As far as I can see that patch has been merged only in 2.6.30 and is not in any of the 2.6.29.? releases. There is definitely no Fedora-specific version of that patch present. The only Fedora-specific patch related to NFS applied in kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.src.rpm is linux-2.6-nfsd-report-short-writes.patch. That patch fixes a problem with the showrt write patch, so it would be worth retesting with it applied. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
