On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:28 -0500, Peter Staubach wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > These two tests insist that a server must accept commits with offset > > 2^64-1 and 2^64-2. I can find no justification in the spec for this > > requirement. > > > > The linux server was recently changed to reject (with INVAL) offsets > > over 2^63-1, which is the maximum that the vfs commit routine can > > accept. That behavior is consistent with the NFSv3 commit > > implementation and with the NFSv4 write implementation. > > > > I guess that I am missing something. At least the NFSv3 > COMMIT operation takes an unsigned 64 bit quantity. That > would seem to make the test correct, would it not? The server will not allow you to write to an offset > 2^63-1 (it will return NFS3ERR_INVAL), so it makes zero sense for the client to try to issue a COMMIT for an offset starting in that range. Cheers Trond -- 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
