[3159] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: nfs installer trouble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Oct 31 11:34:31 2000
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Oct 2000 11:34:26 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o"'s message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:24:24 -0500"
Message-Id: <sjmu29trmul.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Ted, the particular problem we see is that the NFS client hangs and
when we look at the client there is a log message about not being able
to get a slot.
As for trying out those new RPMS, upgrading the kernel on a redhat
boot disk is a challenging prospect, mostly because it requires
changes to the bootdisk as well as the install server.
-derek
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:04:11 EST
> From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
>
> There was some discussion on -c sipb today about the
> current problems with NFS and the installer. It
> was debated for a bit whether or not it was possible
> to use the kernel from the 7.0 installer with our
> 6.2 install. The question no one seemed to have the
> answer to was whether or not the kernel in the 7.0
> installer has the appropriate patches to fix the NFS
> problem. Can anyone shed any additional light on this?
>
> What is the specific NFS problem? (Besides "too flakey for production
> use"?) We're using it for production use (home directories, et. al.)
> at VA Linux, and haven't been having any problems.
>
> I am not sure exactly which Red Hat kernels have the correct NFS
> patches. I can point folks at a specific kernel that I know has the
> latest patches, though:
>
> ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/kernel/2.2.18-beta
>
> There are 6.2 and 7.0 RPM's. It would be really useful if someone could
> try out that particular kernel RPM, and let me know if they're still
> seeing whatever NFS problems that they've been trying to deal with. If
> they are seeing the problem, it would be nice to get more details about
> exactly that the problem is, and I can feed it back to the NFS
> developers.
>
> One of the main Linux NFS developers, Dave Higgen, was hired by VA to
> take care of all of the Linux NFS problems, and as far as I know, we
> haven't seen any stability problems for quite some time. If there are
> problems, we'd like to know about them.
>
> - Ted
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