On 2010-08-16 12:40 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:09:12 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > This hits me, too. Reverting it cures the problem. > > (BTW, the correct commit id of the affecting patch is > > af7fa16506bf9b6323e862a61e14c20555152bb3 > > "NFS: Fix up the fsync code") > > > > Reproduced on 2.6.36-rc1. > > > > So, fsync() returns 1 wrongly. Apparently this breaks NFS file locks as well: fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.3.17 daemon /home/nbowler/.fetchmail.pid: Bad file descriptor fetchmail: lock creation failed. > How about a band-aid fix below? [...] > Subject: [PATCH] NFS: fix fsync return code and this fixes all the problems for me. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- 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
