On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > [Please CC me on responses as I'm not subscribed] > > Hi, > > I seem to have uncovered a regression in the NFS code between 2.6.37 and > 2.6.37.1 > caused by this changeset: > > commit 55ea499d60aefa3d03a77fc8590c26b5881faa92 > Author: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> > Date: Sat Jan 8 17:45:38 2011 -0500 > NFS: Don't use vm_map_ram() in readdir > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.37.y.git;a=commit;h=6650239a4b01077e80d5a4468562756d77afaa59 > > With this change applied, copying of files between NFS and non-NFS > mounts seems to be broken. The easiest way I've found to replicate > this myself is to use a VCS to do a clone of a tree on a NFS mount to > a directory on a non-NFS mount. I used Mercurial, as I had Mercurial > trees to hand from work on IcedTea, but I assume doing it with a git > tree such as the linux tree would also work. The idea is to do > something which involves copying over a bunch of directories and > checking the result is readable. > > $ hg clone $HOME/projects/openjdk/icedtea6-hg > destination directory: icedtea6-hg > updating to branch default > abort: > data/contrib/templater/hotspot/src/cpu/CPU/vm/bytecodeInterpreter_CPU.inline.hpp.i@16d04ce16287: > no match found! > > In the above, $HOME is an NFS mount and $PWD is a local reiserfs > partition. I initially hit failures doing builds with source on $HOME > and the build directory on a local reiserfs partition. In that > scenario, it would fail as not being able to find files that should > have been copied over. > > Reverting the changeset fixes the issue. 2.6.37.2 still has the bug. > I haven't checked 2.6.37.3 yet but I didn't see any NFS changes in there.
There's some more discussion here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357121 Greg, Trond, as this is a regression in -stable, I wonder if it's best that we just revert the commit? Pekka _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
