Being able to reactivate it is a good thing, for either testing purposes or for older kernels, since it is more efficient - unless we think there's other known brokenness such as the potential return out of the while loop mentioned earlier.
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 06:13:12PM +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > On Mar 8, 2016, at 17:29 , Michael Laß wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, den 08.03.2016, 16:47 +0100 schrieb mdrslmr: > >> I created a patch from what you suggested above. > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> I did all of that on top of AUR-openafs-linux-4.4 which was provided by > >> Bevan, the openafs archlinux packager. > >> > >> The patch I actually used is attached below. > > > > That patch is not complete (it's missing the configuration flag). > > Indeed. The complete patch as proposed would look like > http://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/12217/ . Chas already objected to making it > possible to reactivate afs_linux_storeproc with a configure switch, and he's > probably right, but please feel free to comment on that change. > > > I > > will update the corresponding git branch for the openafs package soon > > to allow testing. But since LINUX_USE_SPLICE wasn't defined your patch > > should have worked, too. > > Right. > > > Was the error code 32 returned from git or did the kernel log message > > change accordingly? Does your log again show a lost file server > > connection? And have files been corrupted or just the checkout aborted? > > > Good questions. > > Sigh. Looks like there's more to it. > > -- > Stephan Wiesand > DESY -DV- > Platanenenallee 6 > 15738 Zeuthen, Germany > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info -- ******************************** David William Botsch Programmer/Analyst @CNFComputing bot...@cnf.cornell.edu ******************************** _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info