On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:05:08PM +0100, Anton Starikov wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2010, at 6:52 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > >> > >>> That's pretty old kernel; I'd file a bug with CentOS. > >> > >> Unfortunately, with newer kernels this setup is even more problematic. :) > > > > Any details? > > > > As a rule, this list is probably going to be a better place to handle > > bugs with the latest upstream kernels, and your distributor is more > > likely to be useful for their kernels. > > I submitted that to this list about year ago. It seems that one of the > biggest issues that with NFS3 root, and NFS4 /home idmapd get > deadlocked. To resolve NFS4 credentials it need to access NFS3. which > is blocked by waiting final of NFS4 operation. I tried to move a lot > of stuff to tmpfs, but it didn't resolve situation, if root still > NFS3. Do you have a pointer to the previous discussion? --b. > > My general observation is that there is trend: newer kernel, faster > you get deadlock with this setup :) > > Anton. > > > > -- 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