Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2006-03-26 Thread Marc Horowitz
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:31:58AM -0500, Marc Horowitz wrote: Do you have a reference to this document? Retrying forever doesn't seem awful (it wouldn't be my preference, but that's ok), but retrying *uninterruptably* seems like it would never be

Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2006-03-25 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi Marc, I think that nfs strategy to retry forever is a documented feature, not a bug. You can override the behaviour by doing a 'soft' mount. If you believe that this bug should remain open, please provide additional information, otherwise I'll close this bug one week from now (Sunday, April

Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2006-03-25 Thread Marc Horowitz
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that nfs strategy to retry forever is a documented feature, not a bug. You can override the behaviour by doing a 'soft' mount. If you believe that this bug should remain open, please provide additional information, otherwise I'll close this bug

Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2006-01-03 Thread David Schmitt
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Marc Horowitz wrote: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Marc Horowitz wrote: can you try out if newer 2.6.12 fixed that nfs issue? http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/ from the client side, but i guess you

Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2006-01-03 Thread Marc Horowitz
David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from nfs(5): soft If an NFS file operation has a major timeout then report an I/O error to the calling program. The default is to continue retrying NFS file operations indefinitely.

Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2005-07-11 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Marc Horowitz wrote: Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.11-7 Severity: important Setup: nfs client machine running kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp (also verified with kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686). nfs server running Fedora Core 2, 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp.