Re: [PATCH 020/100] nfsd: select CONFIG_PROC_FS in nfsv4 and gss server cases

2008-02-01 Thread Chuck Lever
On Jan 28, 2008, at 4:48 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:12:26PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:28 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: I don't care either way, but I'm inclined to leave this as is until someone comes along with really clear and convincing criteria

Re: [PATCH 020/100] nfsd: select CONFIG_PROC_FS in nfsv4 and gss server cases

2008-02-01 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:40:20AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: According to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt, select is OK to use on non-visible options like NFS_ACL_SUPPORT, LOCKD, and SUNRPC, but generally depends on is preferred for setting visible options. Apparently select

[PATCH 0/3] enhanced ESTALE error handling (v2)

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Staubach
Hi. Here is version 2 of a patch set which modifies the system to enhance the ESTALE error handling for system calls which take pathnames as arguments. The error, ESTALE, was originally introduced to handle the situation where a file handle, which NFS uses to uniquely identify a file on the

Re: [PATCH 3/3] enhanced NFS ESTALE error handling (v2)

2008-02-01 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 15:58 -0500, Peter Staubach wrote: Hi. The patch enhanced the ESTALE error handling for NFS mounted file systems. It expands the number of places that the NFS client checks for ESTALE returns from the server. It also enhances the ESTALE handling for directories by

RE: Kernel oops, RHEL 4

2008-02-01 Thread Murata, Dennis
-Original Message- From: Steve Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:06 AM To: Murata, Dennis Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel oops, RHEL 4 Murata, Dennis wrote: We have had two system crashes in the past two weeks of a

Re: [PATCH 2/3] enhanced syscall ESTALE error handling (v2)

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Staubach
Miklos Szeredi wrote: This doesn't apply to -mm, because the ro-mounts stuff touches a lot of the same places as this patch. You probably need to rebase this on top of those changes. This patch adds handling for the error, ESTALE, to the system calls which take pathnames as arguments. The

Re: [PATCH 2/3] enhanced syscall ESTALE error handling (v2)

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Staubach
Miklos Szeredi wrote: This doesn't apply to -mm, because the ro-mounts stuff touches a lot of the same places as this patch. You probably need to rebase this on top of those changes. This patch adds handling for the error, ESTALE, to the system calls which take pathnames as