I've created RPMs using the source (1.6.21.1) with this patch and have installed it on several systems running the latest RHEL 7.4 kernel. I haven't noticed any issues from the fixes (can't say my testing has been exhaustive though), but these also aren't very busy systems and I also haven't ever seen the getcwd issues on these systems either.
It has been decided that we will wait for a new official OpenAFS release with this fix before putting/testing it on any production, busier systems where we've seen the getcwd issue occur, instead of using a patched source for these systems. So, as soon as a new 1.6.x release comes out with this fix (either the 1.6.x backport or the larger changes), we'll be sure to test it more and confirm that we don't encounter the same getcwd issue anymore as well. Thanks! -- Matt Vander Werf HPC System Administrator University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing - Union Station 506 W. South Street South Bend, IN 46601 Phone: (574) 631-0692 On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Mark Vitale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 1, 2017, at 1:48 PM, Matt Vander Werf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I noticed you added your patch(es) to gerrit for the RHEL 7.4 getcwd > issue (Thanks!). > > > > Responding to your comment on the latest commit, "I can submit an > equivalent, but simpler, "emergency" 1.6.x backport of just this top commit > on request.": This definitely would be preferred from our end! (Would allow > us to test just the getcwd patch in the 1.6.x branch, which is what we > use.) Once this is available, I can test this in our setup to confirm it > fixes the getcwd issue for us as well. > > Please try: > > https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/12796/ > > and let me know how it works for you. > > Thanks, > — > Mark Vitale > Sine Nomine Associates > >
